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Sakurai Prize Celebrates 20 Years
Photo Credit: Cronin Photography
This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, established in 1984 as a memorial to and in recognition of the accomplishments of J. J. Sakurai.To commemorate the occasion, Mrs. Noriko Sakurai, the widow of J. J. Sakurai, was present at the April meeting in Denver, and she is shown here with this year’s Prize recipients, Ikaros Bigi of Notre Dame and Anthony Sanda of Nagoya University in Japan. Both Bigi and Sanda had known J. J. Sakurai personally.
April Meeting Prize Recipients
Photo Credit: Cronin Photography
Front row (l to r): Arie Bodek, Suzanne Staggs, Herwig Schopper, Juan Maldacena, Ikaros Bigi, George Bertsch, Anthony Sanda. Back row (l to r): Dmitry Teytelman, Gabriele Veneziano, John Seeman, H. Jeff Kimble, Peter Onyisi, Andrew Steiner, Shahram Rahatlou, Katsunobu Oide. Not shown: Marc Ross, Peter D. Zimmerman, Wick Haxton.
