Gail Hanson

Gail G. Hanson, born 22 February 1947 in Dayton, Ohio[1] is an American experimental particle physicist.

Gail G. Hanson
Born	February 22, 1947 Dayton, Ohio
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards	Panofsky Prize (1996)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics (high-energy particle physics)
Institutions	University of California, Riverside

Career

Hanson received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.[2] She spent sixteen years at SLAC, first as a research assistant and then as a permanent staff member.[3] Whilst there, Hanson participated in the discovery of the J/psi meson and tau lepton. Her work led to the first evidence for quark jet production in electron-positron annihilation,[4] for which she was awarded the 1996 Panofsky Prize with Roy Schwitters.[3]

In 2002 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Riverside.[2]

Awards and honors

• Fellow of the American Physical Society[5]
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[6]
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow[7]
• Winner of the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society (1996)[3]

References

1. American Men and Women of science. Thomson Gale. 2004.)
2. "UCR Profiles - Search & Browse". profiles.ucr.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
3. "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
4. Hanson, G.; Abrams, G. S.; Boyarski, A.; Breidenbach, Martin; Bulos, F.; Chinowsky, William; Feldman, G. J.; Friedberg, C. E.; Fryberger, D.; Goldhaber, G.; Hartill, D.; Jean-Marie, B.; Kadyk, J. A.; Larsen, Rudolf R.; Litke, A.; Luke, D.; Lulu, B.; Luth, V.; Lynch, H. L.; Morehouse, Charles C.; Paterson, J. M.; Perl, Martin L.; Pierre, F.; Pun, T.; Rapidis, Petros A.; Richter, Burton; Sadoulet, B.; Schwitters, R.; Tanenbaum, William M.; et al. (1975). "Evidence for Jet Structure in Hadron Production by e⁺e⁻ Annihilation". Phys. Rev. Lett. 35 (24): 1609–1612. Bibcode:1975PhRvL..35.1609H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1609. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
5. "APS physics Archive (1990-present)". Retrieved 13 May 2014.
6. "AAAS physics archive". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
7. "Gail Hanson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows.

External links

• "CWP at physics.UCLA.edu // Gail Hanson". cwp.library.ucla.edu. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
• Scientific publications of Gail Hanson on INSPIRE-HEP