Pierre Vsevolod Sokolsky is an American physicist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the University of Utah College of Science and also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Following Sokolsky's doctoral degree conferral, he started a postdoctoral researcher position at Columbia University.
Sokolsky joined the University of Utah physics faculty in 1981 and was promoted to full professor in 1988.
He served as the chair of the physics department from August 2003 to July 2007 after which he became dean of the University of Utah College of Science until 2014.
[4] In 2008, he received the Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for "the pioneering development of the atmospheric fluorescence technique as a method for exploring the highest energy cosmic rays.