Sakurai Prize
The Sakurai Prize (officially JJ Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics ) is an award in the field of theoretical physics , specifically elementary particle physics , which is awarded annually by the American Physical Society .
The prize was donated in 1984 in memory of Jun John Sakurai .
Award winners
- 1985 Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi
- 1986 David Gross , David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
- 1987 Luciano Maiani and John Iliopoulos
- 1988 Stephen Adler
- 1989 Nicola Cabibbo
- 1990 Tōichirō Kinoshita
- 1991 Vladimir Naumowitsch Gribow
- 1992 Lincoln Wolfenstein
- 1993 Mary Gaillard
- 1994 Yōichirō Nambu
- 1995 Howard Georgi
- 1996 William Bardeen
- 1997 Thomas Appelquist
- 1998 Leonard Susskind
- 1999 Michail Schifman , Arkady Vainshtein and Valentin Ivanovich Sakharov
- 2000 Curtis Callan
- 2001 Nathan Isgur , Mikhail Woloschin , Mark Wise
- 2002 William Marciano and Alberto Sirlin
- 2003 Alfred Mueller and George Sterman
- 2004 Ikaros Bigi and Anthony Ichirō Sanda
- 2005 Susumu Ōkubo
- 2006 Savas Dimopoulos
- 2007 Stanley Brodsky
- 2008 Alexei Jurjewitsch Smirnow , Stanislaw Pawlowitsch Michejew
- 2009 Davison Soper , John Clements Collins , Richard Keith Ellis
- 2010 Robert Brout , François Englert , Gerald Guralnik , Carl R. Hagen , Peter Higgs and TWB Kibble
- 2011 Chris Quigg , Estia Eichten , Ian Hinchliffe , Kenneth Lane
- 2012 Bryan Webber , Guido Altarelli , Torbjörn Sjöstrand
- 2013 Roberto Peccei , Helen Quinn
- 2014 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower
- 2015 George Zweig
- 2016 G. Peter Lepage
- 2017 Sally Dawson , John F. Gunion , Howard E. Haber , Gordon L. Kane
- 2018 Michael Dine , Ann Nelson
- 2019 Lisa Randall , Raman Sundrum
- 2020 Pierre Sikivie