Prof. Arie Bodek selected to receive the 2004 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
See: UR News Release: http://www.rochester.edu/pr/News/NewsReleases/people/Bodek-Panofsky.html
Professor Arie Bodek will receive the 2004 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society honoring outstanding contributions in the field of Experimental Particle Physics.(Bodek's picture on the left)
The citation for his award will read:
"For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many laboratories."
The W. K. H. Panofsky Prize will be presented at the APS April 2004 meeting in Denver, CO (May 1-4, 2004), at a special Ceremonial session. Prof. Bodek will also be invited to present a lecture at the meeting on the work for which the Prize is being awarded.
The Prize was established to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in Experimental Particle Physics. It consists of $5,000 and a certificate with the above citation. The prize is sponsored by friends of W. K. H. Panofsky and the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.
Bodek is the second faculty member in our department to receive this prestigious award. The first is Prof. Ed Thorndike who received the Panofsky prize in 1999 for studies of the bottom quark at the CLEO experiment. (Thorndike's picture on the left.) Thorndike's citation reads: "For a leading role in milestone advances in the study of the b quark with the CLEO collaboration; particularly the discovery and measurement of b semileptonic decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and the b to u weak transition. In addition, his contributions led to substantial improvements in understanding the flavor sector of the Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings."
The winners of this award since it was established in 1988 are:
2004 Arie Bodek (University of Rochester) "For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many laboratories."
2003 William Willis (Columbia University) "For his leading role in the development and exploitation of innovative techniques now widely adopted in particle physics, including liquid argon calorimetry, electron identifica-tion by detection of transition radiation, and hyperon beams."
2002 Kajita Takaaki, Masatoshi Koshiba and Yoji Totsuka (University of Tokyo) "For compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos."
2001 Paul Grannis (SUNY Stony Brook) "For his distinguished leadership and vision in the conception, design, construction, and execution of the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. His many contributions have been decisive in all aspects of the experiment."
2000 Martin Breidenbach (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) "For his many contributions to e+e- physics, especially with the SLD detector at the Stanford Linear Collider. His deep involvement in all aspects of the project led to important advances both in the measurement of electroweak parameters and in accelerator technology."
1999 Edward H. Thorndike (University of Rochester) "For a leading role in milestone advances in the study of the b quark with the CLEO collaboration; particularly the discovery and measurement of b semileptonic decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and the b to u weak transition. In addition, his contributions led to substantial improvements in understanding the flavor sector of the Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings."
1998 David Robert Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) "For the concept, development, and application of the time projection chamber (TPC), enabling unprecedented studies of complex topologies of charged particles produced in high energy collisions of interest to both high energy and nuclear physics."
1997 Henning Schröder (DESY) and Yuri Zaitsev (Moscow Physical Technical Institute) "For their leading role in the first demonstration of mixing in the BO - B-O system. The unexpectedly large value of the mixing parameter provided indirect evidence for a large top quark mass and has greatly enhanced the possibility for studying CP violation in B meson decays. This capability has encouraged a worldwide effort to determine whether the small CP violation in K decay is a reflection of a fundamental parameter characterizing transitions of quarks among the three generations."
1996 Gail G. Hanson (Indiana University) and Roy F. Schwitters (University of Texas - Austin ) "Gail Hanson and Roy Schwitters are honored for their separate contributions which together provided the first clear evidence that hadronic final states in e+e? annihilation, which are largely composed of spin 0 and spin 1 particles, originate from the fragmentation of spin 1/2 quarks. Gail Hanson observed hadron jets and determined the jet axis by developing and applying the spheric-ity analysis to the hadrons in e+ e? events. She showed that events become more jet?like with increasing energy, contrary to what one expects from a simple phase space production mechanism. Using the beam polarization, she showed that the observed azimuthal distribution of the jet axis was that expected from the production of spin 1/2 quarks that fragment into hadrons."
1995 Frank J. Sciulli (Columbia University) "For his contribution to a seminal set of high energy neutrino experiments at Fermilab. These experiments played an important role in establishing the existence of weak neutral currents; they established accurate neutrino-nucleon cross sections and accurate values of basic electroweak parameters; they set important limits on neutrino oscillations; and they fit sum rules that helped establish the physical reality of quarks."
1994 Thomas J. Devlin (Rutgers) and Lee G Pondrom (U W Madison)
1993 Robert B. Palmer (BNL) , Nicholas P. Samios (BNL) , and Ralph P. Shutt (BNL)
1992 Raymond Davis, Jr. and Frederick Reines (UC Irvine)
1991 Gerson Goldhaber (LBL) and Francois Pierre
1990 Michael S. Witherell (University of Santa Barbara)
1989 Henry W. Kendall(MIT), Richard E. Taylor (SLAC), and Jerome I. Friedman (MIT)
1988 Charles Y. Prescott (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Article submitted by:
Kevin S. McFarland
9/26/03; 6:03:02 PM