W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

official
Organizer
American Physical Society
Why it counts
Annual prize of the American Physical Society (APS), established in 1985 by friends of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and the APS Division of Particles and Fields, for outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics
Held
annual, recipients announced by the APS in October of the preceding year, presented at the APS April Meeting / Global Physics Summit in March-April; year = prize (presentation) year

Reigning winners

Panofsky Prize recipient · 2026

YearPanofsky Prize recipient
2026 Joel N. Butler
2025 Eckhard Elsen
Robert Klanner
2024 David B. Tanner
Leslie J. Rosenberg
2021 Edward T. Kearns
Henry W. Sobel
2020 Wesley H. Smith
2019 Sheldon Stone
2018 Lawrence Sulak
2017 Michel della Negra
Peter Jenni
Tejinder Virdee
2016 David George Hitlin
Fumihiko Takasaki
Jonathan M. Dorfan
Stephen L. Olsen
2015 Stanley Wojcicki