The Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the

Optical Society Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

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 David Lewis MacAdam (July 1, 1910 – March 9, 1998) was an American physicist and color scientist who made important contributions to color science and technology in the fields of colorimetry, color discrimination, color photography and televisi ...

*1942

James G. Baker James Gilbert Baker (November 11, 1914 – June 29, 2005) was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems. Biography He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jesse B. Baker and Hattie M. Stallard, the fourth child of that couple. He at ...

*1944 R. Clark Jones *1946 Wayne C. Norton *1948 David S. Grey *1950 H. Richard Blackwell *1952

Aden B. Meinel Aden B. Meinel (November 25, 1922 – October 3, 2011) was an American astronomer. He retired in 1993 as a distinguished scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also held the rank of professor emeritus at the University of Arizona College ...

*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 Eli Yablonovitch (born 15 December 1946) is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987.M.Kapoor (2013Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures page 58 He and his team were the first t ...

*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 Erdoğan *1996 Frederick A. Kish Jr. *1997 Ekmel Özbay *1998 Benjamin J. Eggleton *1999

Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Education & career ...

*2000

Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin (russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Луки́н); born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Scien ...

*2001 Barbara A. Paldus *2002

Susana Marcos Celestino Susana Marcos Celestino (born September 25, 1970) is a Spanish physicist specialising in human vision and applied optics. She was the Director of the Optical Society in 2012. Education Marcos studied at the University of Salamanca in her homet ...

*2003 Alexei Vladimirovich Sokolov *2004 Randy A. Bartels *2005 Marin Soljacic *2006 John Charles Howell *2007

Shanhui Fan Shanhui Fan (; born 1972) is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and physicist, with a focus on theoretical, computational and numerical aspects of photonics and electromagnetism. He is a professor of electrical engineering, and a profes ...

*2008 L. Cary Gunn *2009 Rebekah A. Drezek *2010

Jeremy O'Brien Jeremy O'Brien (born 1975, Australia) is a physicist who researches in quantum optics, optical quantum metrology and quantum information science. He co-founded and serves as CEO of the quantum computing firm PsiQuantum. Formerly, he was Profes ...

*2011 Elizabeth Hillman *2012 Hatice Altug *2013

Andrea Alù Andrea Alù (born September 27, 1978) is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, ...

*2014

Alexander Szameit Alexander Szameit (born 10 January 1979) is a German physicist working in experimental solid-state optics. Biography Szameit studied physics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Jena, graduating in 2004. Fo ...

*2015 Jeremy N. Munday *2016

Jennifer Dionne Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently senior associate vice provost of research platforms at Stanford University, a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and an associate professor of material ...

*2017 Dirk Robert Englund *2018 Andrei Faraon *2019 Laura Na Liu *2020 Chaoyang Lu *2021

Laura Waller Laura Ann Waller is a computer scientist and Ted Van Duzer Endowed Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Fellowship to develop microscopes to image deep structures within the b ...

*2022 Ido Kaminer *2023 William Renninger Source:

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Medal Winners

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