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Gail G. Hanson (born 22 February 1947 in Dayton, Ohio ), is an American experimental particle physicist.

Hanson received her PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. She spent sixteen years at SLAC, first as a research assistant and then as a permanent staff member, working on the SPEAR electron-positron collider. Whilst there, Hanson participated in the discovery of the J/psi meson and tau lepton. Most notably, her work led to the first evidence for quark jet production in electron position annhilation, for which she was awarded the 1996 Panofsky prize with Roy Schwitters. Subsequently, her research at electron-positron facilities has taken place at the PEP storage ring and Linear Collider at SLAC and on the OPAL experiment at the LEP collider at CERN, where she served as Physics Coordinator. She currently performs studies for a future muon accelerator facility, and is a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

In 1989 Hanson moved to Indiana University to become Professor, and in 1997, Distinguished Professor of Physics. In 2002 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, Riverside. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.