T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation. 1984: Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, Citation: For vital contributions to the discovery of the family of particles and of their properties; for leadership in developing the pp colliding beam physics program at FNAL and building the CDF detector. 1990: S.W. Richardson Foundation Regental Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin. 1996: Panofsky Prize, Citation: Gail Hanson and Roy Schwitters are honored for their separate contributions which together provided the first clear evidence that hadronic final states in e+ e- annihilation, which are largely composed of spin 0 and spin 1 particles, originate from the fragmentation of spin 1/2 quarks. Roy Schwitters used muon pair production to measure the polarization of the beams in the electron-positron storage ring SPEAR. He showed that the azimuthal distribution of high momentum hadrons in hadronic final states was the same as that observed for muon pairs, consistent with the origin of these hadrons from the fragmentation of spin 1/2 quarks. 1987: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences References External links Schwitters' Web site at UT-Austin American Institute of Physics Oral History interview of Roy Schwitters, by David Zierler, May 8, 2020. UT Maya Muon Group Homepage UT College of Natural Sciences: Faculty Death Notice and Remembrance 1944 births 2023 deaths Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Harvard University faculty Stanford University SLAC faculty University of Texas at Austin faculty Winners of the Panofsky Prize Members of JASON (advisory group) Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Seattle