Honors

Prizes & Awards

Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

To recognize outstanding contributions made by physicists who are just beginning their careers, and to help promote the careers of exceptionally promising young physicists.

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J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.

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

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the physics of particle accelerators.

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

To recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in Experimental Particle Physics.

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Prizes & Awards Sponsored by DPF

Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award

This award honors exceptional mentoring, broadly construed, in particle physics and will be bestowed yearly.

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J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics

The Award recognizes exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of theoretical particle physics.

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Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

To provide recognition to exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of experimental particle physics.

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DPF Instrumentation Awards

These awards honor exceptional contributions to instrumentation and detector development in the field of particle physics, and will be bestowed annually.

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