Education
Hanson received her Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.
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Gail Hanson
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Career
She spent sixteen years at SLAC, first as a research assistant and then as a permanent staff member, working on the SPEAR electron-positron collider. Whilst there, Hanson participated in the discovery of the J/psi meson and tau lepton. Subsequently, her research at electron-positron facilities has taken place at the Partnership for Educational Progress storage ring and Linear Collider at SLAC and on the OPAL experiment at the LEP collider at European Organization of Nuclear Research, where she served as Physics Coordinator.
In 1989 Hanson moved to Indiana University to become Professor and, in 1997, Distinguished Professor of Physics.
In 2002 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Riverside. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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She currently performs studies for a future muon accelerator facility, and is a member of the Content Management System experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Panofsky Prize
The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $10,000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $10,000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.