John Jaros (THP) was awarded the 2006 APS W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics along with Bill Ford (U. Colorado), and Nigel Lockyer (U. Pennsylvania).

The award was given for their pioneering work at the MAC and MARK II experiments at SLAC that led to the measurement of the unexpectedly long lifetime of B mesons in 1983.

The award of the Panofsky prize has been twenty years in coming and is a greatly appreciated recognition of this seminal work.

For complete details, see: http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/tip/special/panofsky_prize.htm