Gail Hanson

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Gail G. Hanson
Born (1947-02-22) February 22, 1947 (age 77)
Dayton, Ohio
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards Panofsky Prize (1996)
Scientific career
Fields Physics (high-energy particle physics)
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Riverside

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

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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]

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