The 2002 OSA awards and recipients are:
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment This is highest award OSA presents. Given for overall distinction in optics. Awarded to James P. Gordon for numerous seminal contributions and fundamental insights into quantum electronics, including construction of the first maser, the concepts of confocal laser resonators, optical solitons, and quantum effects in communications systems.
Esther Hoffman Beller Award
Presented for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. Awarded to Emil Wolf for numerous outstanding contributions as an educator, but especially for the influence of his books, which have been educating optical scientists and engineers for more than forty years.
Distinguished Service Award
Presented for outstanding service to the optical community and OSA. Awarded to Boris Stoicheff for exceptional volunteer service to OSA over three decades including the Presidency, the Board of Directors, the Publications Council, the Society Objectives and Planning Committee, and various other committees.
Edwin H. Land Medal
Presented in recognition of pioneering, entrepreneurial creativity that has had a major public impact. Cosponsored with the Society for Imaging Science & Technology. Awarded to Benny Landa for pioneering work in the invention, development, and commercialization of liquid toner electro-photography, and in recognition of outstanding creativity that has had a major public impact.
OSA Leadership Award/New Focus Prize
Presented in recognition of an individual or group of professionals in the field of optics, who have had a significant impact on the field of optics and/or have made a significant contribution to society. Awarded to Ellen Ochoa in recognition of her pioneering status as the first Hispanic woman astronaut, her unstinting efforts to serve as a positive role model for women in general, and Hispanic women in particular, and her generous contributions of time to the optics community.
Adolph Lomb Medal
Presented in recognition of noteworthy contributions to optics, before reaching the age of 30. Awarded to Susana Marcos Celestino for her contributions to our knowledge of the optics of the eye and the interactions of light with the retina.
Archie Mahan Prize
Presented in recognition of the best feature article published in Optics & Photonics News (OPN). Awarded to Edward W. Hagley, Lu Deng, William D. Phillips, Keith Burnett, and Charles W. Clark for “The Atom Laser,” a focused and well-organized article that succinctly connects recent observations in the field of phase coherent matter waves with early 20th century research on Bose-Einstein condensation.
David Richardson Medal
Presented in recognition of contributions to technical optics. Awarded to Arthur H. Guenther for pioneering contributions and continued leadership in the study of laser-induced damage of optical materials, and for exemplary guidance in enabling the infrastructure for technical optics development.
R.W. Wood Prize
Presented in recognition of an outstanding discovery, a scientific or technological achievement, or an invention. Awarded to Pierre Meystre for seminal contributions to free-electron laser, cavity QED, and micromaser; and most recently, the “invention” of the new field of nonlinear atom optics.
Specialty Awards
Allen Prize
Presented for outstanding contributions to atmospheric optics by a graduate student. Awarded to Iain Fletcher Howieson for design, development, and fabrication of a novel, lightweight, near-infrared tunable diode laser spectrometer that made immediate and valuable contributions to balloon and aircraft-borne characterizations of trace atmospheric gases.
Max Born Award
Presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to physical, theoretical or experimental optics. Awarded to John L. Hall for pioneering the field of stable lasers, including their applications in fundamental physics and, most recently, in the stabilization of femtosecond lasers to provide dramatic advances in optical-frequency metrology.
Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Presented in recognition of significant accomplishments in optical engineering. Awarded to Daniel Malacara for outstanding contributions to the art of interferometry and the science of optical testing passed on to posterity through his many publications and the education of his students. He is also awarded for the establishment of several scientific institutions in Mexico.
Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award
Presented in recognition of significant contributions to optics specifically, semiconductor materials, including basic science and technological applications. Awarded to Pallab Bhattacharya for fundamental contributions to the development and understanding of quantum-dot lasers and other quantum-confined photonic devices.
Ellis R. Lippincott Award
Presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to vibrational spectroscopy. Cosponsored with the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Awarded to Sanford A. Asher for pioneering the development of ultraviolet Raman methods and demonstrating their applications to vibrational spectroscopy in analytical, biophysical, and materials chemistry.
William F. Meggers Award
Presented in recognition of outstanding work in spectroscopy. Awarded to James C. Bergquist for seminal contributions to high-resolution, high-accuracy laser spectroscopy with applications to fundamental metrology and clocks.
Edgar D. Tillyer Award
Presented in recognition of distinguished work in the field of vision. Awarded to George Sperling for his innovative research in human visual information processing, specifically in: flicker perception; spatial vision; binocular vision; masking; visual memory; visual attention; and motion perception.
Charles Hard Townes Award
Presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of quantum electronics. Awarded to Charles V. Shank for the development of ultrashort lasers from the near-infrared to x rays, and their application to condensed-matter problems in chemistry, physics, and biology.
John Tyndall Award
Presented in recognition of significant contributions to the field of fiber optic technology. Cosponsored with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Lasers & Electro-Optics Society. Awarded to Neal S. Bergano for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in the advancement of global undersea fiber-optic communication systems.
About OSA
Founded in 1916, the Optical Society of America (OSA) was organized to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied; to promote the common interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers, and of users of optical apparatus of all kinds; and to encourage cooperation among them. OSA’s mission is to promote the generation, application and archiving of knowledge in optics and photonics and to disseminate this knowledge worldwide. OSA can be found on the Web at www.osa.org.