Panofsky Prize
The WKH Panofsky Prize is an award in experimental particle physics awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1988 . It is endowed with $ 10,000 and named after Wolfgang Panofsky .
Award winners
- 1988: Charles Y. Prescott
- 1989: Henry W. Kendall , Richard E. Taylor , Jerome I. Friedman
- 1990: Michael Witherell
- 1991: Gerson Goldhaber , Francois Pierre
- 1992: Raymond Davis , Frederick Reines
- 1993: Robert Brian Palmer , Nicholas P. Samios , Ralph P. Shutt (discovery of the Omega Baryon)
- 1994: Thomas J. Devlin , Lee G. Pondrom , for experiments on polarization and magnetic moment of hyperons at Fermilab 1974–1985
- 1995: Frank J. Sciulli , for high-energy neutrino experiments at the Fermilab
- 1996: Gail G. Hanson , Roy Schwitters
- 1997: Henning Schröder , Juri Michailowitsch Saitsew (Yuri Mikhailovich Zaitsev)
- 1998: David Nygren for developing the Time Projection Chamber (TPC)
- 1999: Edward H. Thorndike for studying bottom-quark physics in the Cleo collaboration
- 2000: Martin Breidenbach , particularly for work on the SLD detector of the SLAC
- 2001: Paul Grannis , for the D0 experiment at the Tevatron of the Fermilab
- 2002: Masatoshi Koshiba , Takaaki Kajita , Yōji Totsuka , evidence of neutrino oscillations in atmospheric neutrinos
- 2003: William J. Willis
- 2004: Arie Bodek
- 2005: Piermaria Oddone , for proposals for an asymmetrical B-meson factory for precision measurements of CP violation in the B-meson system
- 2006: John Jaros , Nigel Lockyer , William T. Ford , for discovering the abnormally long lifespan of the B-quark at SLAC
- 2007: Bruce Winstein , Italo Mannelli , Heinrich Wahl , for precision measurements in the K-Meson system and especially the discovery of direct CP violation
- 2008: George Cassiday , Pierre Sokolsky , for the development of the atmospheric fluorescence method to study high-energy cosmic rays
- 2009: Aldo Menzione (INFN), Luciano Ristori (INFN), for precision solid-state detectors for hadron colliders (CDF collaboration at Fermilab).
- 2010: Eugene W. Beier (University of Pennsylvania), for the study of solar neutrinos and the unequivocal detection of neutrino oscillations
- 2011: AJ Stewart Smith , Douglas Bryman , Laurence Littenberg , for measuring properties of kaon decay, in particular for the detection and measurement of decay
- 2012: William B. Atwood , for leading work on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- 2013: Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet , for their pioneering role in the development and use of phonon detection techniques that enabled the direct search for weakly interacting massive particles ( WIMPs ) (CDMS experiment)
- 2014: Kam-Biu Luk , Yifang Wang for their leading role in the Daya Bay experiment, which provided the first reliable measurement of the theta-13 angle in the neutrino mixing matrix
- 2015: Stanley G. Wojcicki , especially for his important role in the success of the MINOS oscillation experiment
- 2016: Jonathan Dorfan , David Hitlin , Fumihiko Takasaki , Stephen L. Olsen for their leading role in the BaBar experiment and Belle experiment , which demonstrated the CP violation in the B meson decay and the understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics promoted
- 2017: Michel Della Negra , Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee for their outstanding leadership role in the conception, design and construction of the ATLAS and CMS detectors that were crucial in the discovery of the Higgs boson.
- 2018: Lawrence R. Sulak for novel contributions to detector technologies, including pioneering developments in massive water tank Cherenkov detectors that led to major advances in proton decay and neutrino oscillations physics .
- 2019: Sheldon Leslie Stone for groundbreaking contributions to Flavor Physics and Hadron Spectroscopy, specifically for his intellectual leadership role in detector design and analysis in the CLEO and Large Hadron Collider experiments on Beauty and his very influential long-term advocacy of Flavor -Physics for hadron colliders.
- 2020: Wesley Smith for the development of sophisticated trigger systems for particle physics experiments that enabled the measurement of the detailed parton structure of the proton with the ZEUS experiment at the hadron-electron ring accelerator and for the discovery of the Higgs boson and the completion of the standard model at the CMS of the LHC led .
