Robert R. Wilson Prize
The Robert R. Wilson Prize has been awarded annually since 1987 by the American Physical Society for outstanding achievements in the physics of particle accelerators . It is endowed with $ 7,500 and named after Robert R. Wilson .
Award winners
- 1987 Ernest Courant
- 1988 Donald William Kerst
- 1989 Alvin Tollestrup , Martin N. Wilson
- 1990 Kjell Johnsen
- 1991 John Reginald Richardson
- 1992 Rolf Wideröe
- 1993 John Blewett
- 1994 Gustav-Adolf Voss , Thomas L. Collins
- 1995 Raphael Littauer
- 1996 Albert Josef Hofmann
- 1997 Andrew Sessler
- 1998 Matthew Sands
- 1999 Robert Brian Palmer
- 2000 Maury Tigner
- 2001 Claudio Pellegrini
- 2002 Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky
- 2003 Helen Edwards
- 2004 John Seeman , Katsunobu Oide
- 2005 Keith Symon
- 2006 Glen Lambertson
- 2007 Lee C. Teng
- 2008 Lyn Evans
- 2009 Satoshi Ozaki
- 2010 John Peoples
- 2011 Yaroslav Derbenev (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility), for his contributions to the physics of particle beams, including the theory and control of polarization with Siberian snakes , electron and ionization cooling, round to flat beam transformation, free electron lasers, and electron-ion colliders.
- 2012 John Madey
- 2013 John Galayda (SLAC) for his leadership role in the Linac Coherent Light Source , as well as contributions to the Advanced Photon Source and the National Synchrotron Light Source
- 2014 Kwang-Je Kim
- 2015 Hasan Padamsee
- 2016 Vasili Parkhomchuk for the demonstration and practical implementation of electron cooling
- 2017 Anton Piwinski (Desy), James Bjorken , Sekazi Mtingwa (MIT) for a detailed theoretical description of the scattering within an accelerator beam
- 2018 Alexander Wu Chao
- 2019 Toshiki Tajima
- 2020 Bruce Carlsten