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The Optical Society Presents 19 Prestigious Awards for 2016
The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to name the 2016 recipients of its
prestigious awards and medals. The winners include: Gérard Mourou,
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize; Bishnu Pal, Esther Hoffman (News - Alert)
Beller Medal; Xiang Zhang, Max Born Award; G. Michael Morris,
Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award; Robert Alfano,
Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award; Demetri Psaltis, Joseph
Fraunhofer (News - Alert) Award/Robert M. Burley Prize; Valery V. Tuchin, Joseph
W. Goodman Book Writing Award; Chennupati Jagadish, Nick Holonyak
Jr. Award; Martin Aufmuth, Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award; Jan
P. Allebach, Edwin Land Medal; Sang-Sam Choi, Sang Soo Lee
Award; Francis T. S. Yu, Emmett N. Leith Medal; Thomas
Elsaesser, Ellis R. Lippincott Award; Jennifer Dionne, Adolph
Lomb Medal; Brooks Pate, William F. Meggers Award; Francisco
Duarte, David Richardson (News - Alert) Medal; Dennis Levi, Edgar D. Tillyer
Award; Robert W. Boyd, Charles H. Townes Award; Kishan Dholakia,
R.W. Wood Prize. These award winners join an esteemed group of past
recipients recognized by OSA for their outstanding contributions and
leadership in the field of optics and photonics. Award ceremonies will
be held throughout the year.
"Our Society presents a number of awards annually to recognize
individual excellence in the field of optics and photonics," said
Elizabeth Rogan, CEO, The Optical Society. "The recipients of this
year's awards and medals are paving the way to seminal discoveries which
contribute to a greater level of understanding of the optical sciences.
OSA is incredibly pleased to acknowledge their dedication and celebrates
their success."
The Optical Society's President, Alan Willner, added: "This year's
distinguished recipients have written books that have contributed to the
further understanding of optics and photonics, are the named inventors
of patents that will aid in improving the living conditions of millions,
and were lead investigators on pivotal research. Moreover, many of this
year's recipients have taken on important leadership roles within The
Optical Society, and through such roles they have exemplified a
dedication to our field and to their colleagues."
The OSA award committee reviews nominations for each award, including
curriculum vitae, four letters of recommendations and a statement of
career accomplishment related to the award criteria, and presents its
recommendations to the OSA Board of Directors. The Board has approved
the following winners for 2016:
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize Recipient: Gérard
Mourou, École Polytechnique, France The Frederic
Ives Medal is the highest award conferred by OSA for overall distinction
in optics. This award is being presented to Gérard Mourou for numerous
pioneering contributions to the development of ultrafast and ultrahigh
intensity laser science and for outstanding leadership of the
international and commercial communities impacted by these technologies.
Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Recipient: Bishnu Pal, Mahindra
École Centrale, India The Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
recognizes outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering
education. This year Bishnu Pal is being recognized for over thirty-five
years of guided wave photonics education, including the development of
graduate and continuing education teaching programs and laboratories in
optoelectronics and optical communications at IIT-Delhi, and inspiring a
generation of leading academic and industrial scientists.
Max Born Award Recipient: Xiang Zhang, University
of California Berkeley, USA The Max Born Award recognizes
contributions to physical optics. Xiang Zhang is being recognized for
the experimental realization of major theoretical predictions in the
field of metamaterials and graphene optics.
Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Recipient: G.
Michael Morris, RPC Photonics Inc., USA The Stephen D.
Fantone Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals who, over an
extended period of time, have served the Optical Society in an
outstanding way, especially through volunteer participation in its
management, operation or planning in such ways as editorship of a
periodical, organization of meetings, or othr service to the Society.
G. Michael Morris is being recognized for extraordinary contributions to
The Optical Society, including the distinguished service as 2003 OSA
President and his key role in the formation and leadership of the OSA
Foundation.
Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Recipient: Robert
Alfano, City University of New York, USA The
Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award recognizes individuals for their
innovative and influential contributions to the field of biophotonics,
regardless of their career stage. Robert Alfano is being recognized for
his leadership and pioneering contributions in the field of
biophotonics, comprising the diverse use of label-free native
fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy and optical imaging for cancer
detection in tissues and cells.
Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Recipient: Demetri
Psaltis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland The Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
recognizes significant research accomplishments in the field of optical
engineering. The award is presented to Demetri Psaltis for pioneering
contributions to the fields of photonics engineering and optofluidics.
Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Recipient: Valery
V. Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia The
Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award recognizes a recent and outstanding
book in the field of optics and photonics that has contributed
significantly to research, teaching and/or the optics and photonics
industry. The award is presented to Valery V. Tuchin for his book, Tissue
Optics: Light Scattering Methods and Instruments for Medical Diagnosis,
3rd ed., (SPIE Press, 2015). Award co-sponsored with SPIE.
Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Recipient: Chennupati
Jagadish, Australian National University, Australia The
Nick Holonyak Jr. Award is given for contributions to optics based on
semiconductor-based devices and optical materials, including basic
science and technological applications. This year, Chennupati Jagadish
is being honored for his pioneering work and sustained contributions to
quantum-well, quantum-dot and nanowire optoelectronic devices and their
integration.
Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Recipient: Martin
Aufmuth, OneDollarGlasses, Germany The Robert E. Hopkins
Leadership Award recognizes an individual or group of optics
professionals who has made a significant impact on the field of optics
and/or made a significant contribution to society. Martin Aufmuth is
receiving this award for his leadership in establishing and implementing
the project "OneDollarGlasses," a contribution that demonstrates how
optics can improve living conditions of millions of people in developing
countries.
Edwin Land Medal Recipient: Jan P. Allebach, Purdue
University, USA The Edwin Land Medal recognizes pioneering work
empowered by scientific research to create inventions, technologies and
products. Jan P. Allebach is being recognized for his diverse
contributions in development of widely used commercial half toning
algorithms for digital printing, digital image processing and color
management, and also for his leadership as an educator and researcher
within the field of electronic imaging. Award co-sponsored with the
Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
Sang Soo Lee Award Recipient: Sang-Sam Choi, Laser
and Physics Cooperation, South Korea The Sang Soo Lee Award
recognizes outstanding leadership in founding or growing the optics and
photonics community locally. Sang-Sam Choi is the recipient of this
award for his revolutionary development of optical fiber in South Korea,
which led to flourishing optical fiber and optical communication
industries within the region. Award co-sponsored with the Optical
Society of Korea.
Emmett N. Leith Medal Recipient: Francis T. S. Yu, Pennsylvania
State University, USA The Emmett N. Leith Medal recognizes
seminal contributions to the field of optical information processing.
Francis T. S. Yu is being recognized for his life-long important
contributions to holography, white-light holography, partially coherent
signal processing, optical correlators and information optics.
Ellis R. Lippincott Award Recipient: Thomas Elsaesser, Max
Born Institute, Germany The Ellis R. Lippincott Award is given
for contributions to vibrational spectroscopy and is co-sponsored with
the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Thomas
Elsaesser is receiving the award for his seminal contributions to the
understanding of the ultrafast coherent and incoherent vibrational
dynamics of hydrogen bonds in liquids and biomolecules. Award
co-sponsored by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the Coblentz
Society.
Adolph Lomb Medal Recipient: Jennifer Dionne, Stanford
University, USA The Adolph Lomb Medal recognizes noteworthy
contributions made to optics before reaching the age of 35. Jennifer
Dionne is receiving this medal for her research that led to the
revealing of nanoscopic optical phenomena in metal optics.
William F. Meggers Award Recipient: Brooks Pate, University
of Virginia, USA The William F. Meggers Award recognizes
outstanding work in spectroscopy. Brooks Pate is being recognized for
the invention of the chirped- pulse Fourier transform microwave
technique, which revolutionized rotational spectroscopy, leading to an
explosion of novel spectroscopic, astrochemical, analytical, dynamical
and chemical kinetics applications.
David Richardson Medal Recipient: Francisco Duarte, Interferometric
Optics, USA The David Richardson Medal is given for significant
contributions to optical engineering, primarily in the commercial and
industrial sector. Francisco Duarte is receiving the medal for his
seminal contributions to the physics and technology of multiple-prism
arrays for narrow-linewidth tunable laser oscillators and laser pulse
compression.
Edgar D. Tillyer Award Recipient: Dennis Levi, University
of California Berkeley, USA The Edgar D. Tillyer Award is
presented to a person who has performed distinguished work in the field
of vision, including (but not limited to) the optics, physiology,
anatomy or psychology of the visual system. Dennis Levi is receiving the
award for his ground-breaking studies of normal spatial vision,
plasticity in the adult visual system and amblyopia.
Charles H. Townes Award Recipient: Robert W. Boyd, University
of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; University of Rochester, USA; and University
of Glasgow, UK The Charles Hard Townes Award is given for
contributions to quantum electronics. Robert W. Boyd is receiving the
award for his fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear
optics, including the development of methods for controlling the
velocity of light, of quantum imaging methods, and of composite
nonlinear optical materials.
R.W. Wood Prize Recipient: Kishan Dholakia, University
of St. Andrews, UK The R. W. Wood Prize is given for an
outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement or
invention. Kishan Dholakia is receiving this recognition for his
pioneering research into optical micromanipulation using shaped light
for interdisciplinary photonics-based applications.
About The Optical Society
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional
organization for scientists, engineers, students and entrepreneurs who
fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate
achievements in the science of light. Through world-renowned
publications, meetings and membership initiatives, OSA provides quality
research, inspired interactions and dedicated resources for its
extensive global network of optics and photonics experts. For more
information, visit osa.org/100.
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