The Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science is a prize that has been awarded annually by the

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since 1991. The recipient is chosen for "''outstanding contributions to basic research which uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light''". The prize is named after Arthur L. Schawlow (1921–1999), laser pioneer and

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, and as of 2007 is valued at $10,000.

Recipients

Source: * 2023 Demetrios Christodoulides * 2022 Tony F. Heinz * 2021 Peter J. Delfyett, Jr. * 2020

Shaul Mukamel Shaul Mukamel (born 1948) is a chemist and physicist, currently serving as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is known for his works in Non linear Optics and Spectroscopy. Early life and education Shaul Mukamel ...

* 2019 Steven T. Cundiff * 2018

Gérard Albert Mourou Gérard ( French: ) is a French masculine given name and surname of Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constit ...

* 2017 Louis F. DiMauro * 2016

Robert W. Boyd Robert William Boyd (born 8 March 1948) is an American physicist noted for his work in optical physics and especially in nonlinear optics. He is currently the Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Quantum Nonlinear Optics based at the U ...

* 2015

Christopher Monroe Christopher Roy Monroe (born October 19, 1965) is an American physicist and engineer in the areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information science, especially quantum computing. He directs one of the leading research a ...

* 2014 * 2013

Robert Alfano Robert Alfano is an Italian-American experimental physicist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College and Graduate School of New York of the City University of New York, where he is also the founding Direc ...

* 2012

Michael D. Fayer Michael David Fayer (born September 12, 1947) is an American chemical physicist. He is the David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Education and academic career He attended the University of C ...

* 2011 * 2010 , Margaret M. Murnane * 2009 Robert W. Field * 2008 * 2007 Szymon Suckewer * 2006 Paul B. Corkum * 2005

Marlan O. Scully Marlan Orvil Scully (born August 3, 1939) is an American physicist best known for his work in theoretical quantum optics. He is a professor at Texas A&M University and Princeton University. Additionally, in 2012 he developed a lab at the Baylor ...

* 2004

Federico Capasso Federico Capasso (born 1949, Rome, Italy), a prominent applied physicist, was one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University. He has co-authored over ...

* 2003

David E. Pritchard David Edward Pritchard (born October 15, 1941 in New York City) is physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Pritchard carried out pioneering experiments on the interaction of atoms with light that led to t ...

* 2002

Stephen E. Harris Stephen Ernest Harris (born November 29, 1936) is an American physicist known for his contributions to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), modulation of single photons, and x-ray emission. In a diverse career, he has collaborated wi ...

* 2001

David J. Wineland David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American Nobel-laureate physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser-cooling trap ...

* 2000

Richard Neil Zare Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physical ...

* 1999

Carl E. Wieman Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A.D White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric All ...

* 1998

William D. Phillips William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Biography Phillips was born to William Cornelius Phillips of Juniata, Pennsylvan ...

* 1997

Charles V. Shank Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank (born July 12, 1943) is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004. Early life and education Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank was born in Mount Holly, ...

, Erich Peter Ippen * 1996

Theodor W. Hänsch Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-third of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb t ...

* 1995 Richart E. Slusher * 1994

Steven Chu Steven ChuJohn L. Hall John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy. Biography Born i ...

* 1992

Yuen-Ron Shen Yuen-Ron Shen () is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on non-linear optics. He was born in Shanghai and graduated from National Taiwan University. He received ...

* 1991

Peter P. Sorokin Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin ( rus, Пётр Питиримович Сорокин, 10 July 1931 – 24 September 2015) was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachus ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schawlow, Arthur L., Prize In Laser Science Laser awards and associations Awards of the American Physical Society Awards established in 1991

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