Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators

official
Organizer
American Physical Society
Why it counts
Awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1987 to recognize outstanding achievement in the physics of particle accelerators; named for Robert R. Wilson, administered with the APS Division of Physics of Beams
Held
annual, recipients announced by the APS in October of the preceding year, presented at the APS April Meeting / Global Physics Summit in spring; year = prize year

Reigning winners

Wilson Prize recipient · 2026

YearWilson Prize recipient
2026 Jie Wei
2025 Alexander Zholents
2024 Kaoru Yokoya
2021 Yuri Orlov
2020 Bruce Carlsten
2019 Toshiki Tajima
2018 Alexander Wu Chao
2017 Anton Piwinski
James Bjorken
Sekazi Mtingwa
2016 Vasily Parkhomchuk
2015 Hasan Padamsee