Adolph Lomb Medal
The Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the Optical Society of America is a prize for young scientists (age 35 or younger) for their contributions to optics. It is named after Adolph Lomb, treasurer of the Optical Society of America from its founding until his death in 1942.
Medal Winners
- 1940 David MacAdam
- 1942 James G. Baker
- 1944 R. Clark Jones
- 1946 Wayne C. Norton
- 1948 David S. Grey
- 1950 H. Richard Blackwell
- 1952 Aden B. Meinel
- 1954 William Sinton
- 1956 Walter R. J. Brown
- 1958 Edward L. O'Neill
- 1960 Ian Mills
- 1962 Jean-Pierre Barrat
- 1964 Gordon H. Spencer
- 1966 C. Kumar Patel
- 1968 Douglas C. Sinclair
- 1970 Marlan O. Scully
- 1972 Robert L. Byer
- 1974 James Forsyth
- 1976 Marc D. Levenson
- 1978 Eli Yablonovitch
- 1980 David M. Bloom
- 1982 Won T. Tsang
- 1984 Edward H. Adelson
- 1986 David A. B. Miller
- 1988 Janis A. Valdmanis
- 1990 Andrew M. Weiner
- 1992 David F. Welch
- 1992 Mohammed N. Islam
- 1993 Henry C. Kapteyn
- 1994 Robert W. Schoenlein
- 1995 Turan Erdogan
- 1996 Frederick A. Kish Jr.
- 1997 Ekmel Ozbay
- 1998 Benjamin J. Eggleton
- 1999 Jun Ye
- 2000 Mikhail Lukin
- 2001 Barbara A. Paldus
- 2002 Susana Marcos Celestino
- 2003 Alexei Vladimirovich Sokolov
- 2004 Randy A. Bartels
- 2005 Marin Soljacic
- 2006 John Charles Howell
- 2007 Shanhui Fan
- 2008 L. Cary Gunn
- 2009 Rebekah A. Drezek
- 2010 Jeremy O’Brien
- 2011 Elizabeth M. C. Hillman
- 2012 Hatice Altug
- 2013 Andrea Alù
- 2014 Alexander Szameit
- 2015 Jeremy N. Munday
Weblinks
- Official prize website at the Optical Society of America (osa.org)
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