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CORNELL LABORATORY FOR ACCELERATOR-BASED SCIENCES AND EDUCATION

CLASSE NEWS | 10 Nov 2014

2015 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Recipient Hasan Padamsee

Hasan Padamsee, the Cornell adjunct professor and group leader of Cornell's SRF group for decades (now leading the technical devision of FNAL) has received the 2015 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

His citation reads: "For his leadership and pioneering world-renowned research in superconducting radio-frequency physics, material science, and technology, which contributed to remarkable advances in the capability of particle accelerators."

Hasan Padamsee is recognized as one of the world's top experts on SRF. He has worked in this field for nearly 4 decades and has made contributions to nearly all its breakthroughs. His influence has been magnified by his students at Cornell and by his collaborators. SRF technology has strongly increased in importance for the field of high-energy accelerators, and an impressive share of the credit for this success story goes to Hasan. It is safe to say that likely, without his contributions, SRF technology would not be ready today for the most modern accelerators that are under construction and development: PIP-II, LCLS-II, ESS, and the European XFEL.

It is fitting that Robert R. Wilson, second director of Cornell's high-energy physics lab, was also at Cornell for decades before becoming the founding director of FNAL.