Gail Hanson

Hanson received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She spent sixteen years at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, first as a research assistant and then as a permanent staff member. for which she was awarded the 1996 Panofsky Prize with Roy Schwitters. In 2002 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Riverside. ==Awards and honors==

• Fellow of the American Physical Society • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow • Winner of the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society (1996) ==References==