Laureates

MG 15 · 2018

Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University

HEPL is recognized for cross-disciplinary experimental physics connecting technology, astrophysics, and fundamental tests.

Founded

1960s, United States

Location at the Time of the Award

Stanford, United States

Presented To

Research Professor Leo Hollberg, HEPL Assistant Director

Prize Motivation

To HEPL for having developed interdepartmental activities at Stanford University at the frontier of fundamental physics, astrophysics and technology.

Meeting

MG XV, Rome, Italy

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Work

Institutional Marcel Grossmann Awards recognize the infrastructures, collaborations, and research cultures that make major advances in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology possible.

HEPL is recognized for cross-disciplinary experimental physics connecting technology, astrophysics, and fundamental tests.

The award highlights how sustained institutional work can create instruments, archives, scientific communities, and missions that become foundations for later discoveries.