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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her many important contributions to elementary particle physics, including a systematic program to understand semileptonic decays of b quarks and measure the CKM matrix element Vcb
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Persis S. Drell is affiliated with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. Their professional focus lies primarily in elementary particle physics, contributing to research that advances understanding in this scientific domain.

Throughout their career, Persis S. Drell has been recognized with several awards and honors reflecting their involvement in the physics community. Notably, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1997, with a citation highlighting their contributions to elementary particle physics, specifically a systematic program addressing semileptonic decays of b quarks and measurements related to the CKM matrix element Vcb.

Additional recognitions include becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the same year as the APS fellowship. In 2010, Persis S. Drell was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission

    W. B. Atwood;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;W. Althouse

  • FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE FIRST SOURCE CATALOG

    A.A. Abdo;A.A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog

    P. L. Nolan;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello

  • Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ + e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • Searching for dark matter annihilation from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data

    M. Ackermann;A. Albert;B. Anderson;W. B. Atwood

  • The CLEO-II detector

    Y. Kubota;J. K. Nelson;D. Perticone;R. Poling

  • THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF FERMI BRIGHT BLAZARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;I. Agudo;M. Ajello

  • The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • The second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;E. Antolini;E. Antolini

  • Detection of the characteristic pion-decay signature in supernova remnants

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;Luca Baldini

  • Branching fraction and photon energy spectrum for b→sγ

    S. Chen;J. W. Hinson;J. Lee;D. H. Miller

  • THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;L. Baldini

  • Fermi-LAT observations of the diffuse γ-ray emission: implications for cosmic rays and the interstellar medium

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood;L. Baldini

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert

  • Measurement of Separate Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;W. B. Atwood

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert;W. B. Atwood

  • Measurements of the meson-photon transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons at large momentum transfer

    J. Gronberg;T. S. Hill;R. Kutschke;D. J. Lange

  • Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ

    R. Ammar;S. Ball;P. Baringer;D. Coppage

  • The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of B mesons

    K. W. Edwards;R. Ammar;D. Besson;X. Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego F. Torres
Diego F. Torres Institute of Space Sciences
Julie McEnery
Julie McEnery Goddard Space Flight Center
G. Tosti
G. Tosti University of Perugia
Olaf Reimer
Olaf Reimer University of Innsbruck
Peter F. Michelson
Peter F. Michelson Stanford University
A. Morselli
A. Morselli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
P. A. Caraveo
P. A. Caraveo National Institute for Astrophysics
Igor V. Moskalenko
Igor V. Moskalenko Stanford University
Marco Ajello
Marco Ajello Clemson University
Yasushi Fukazawa
Yasushi Fukazawa Hiroshima University

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