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James J. Wynne

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James J. Wynne
Born(1943-Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".-{{{day}}})Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{"., 1943
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University,B.A. 1964, PhD 1969
AwardsInduction to National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2002
R.W. Wood Prize, 2004
Russ Prize, 2013
Member of National Academy of Engineering, 2015
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

James J. Wynne is a physicist at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

Wynne pioneered the use of excimer lasers for medical applications, most notably LASIK. President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Feb 2, 2013, together with Rangaswamy Srinivasan and (posthumously) Samuel Blum for their contributions to laser eye surgery.


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