The Max Born Award is given 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 ...

(formerly the Optical Society of America) for "outstanding contributions to physical optics", and is named after Max Born.

Recipients

Source
The Optical Society
* 2022

Yuri Kivshar Yuri S. Kivshar (born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR), Australian Scientist of Ukrainian origin, distinguished professor, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra, Australia) and research director o ...

* 2021

Anne L'Huillier Anne L'Huillier (born 1958 in Paris) is a French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden. Life L'Huillier first pursued an education and was awarded a Master of Science in theoretical physics and mathematics, bu ...

* 2020

Nader Engheta Nader Engheta ( fa, نادر انقطاع) (born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian- American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, ...

* 2019 Govind P. Agrawal * 2018 Demetrios N. Christodoulides * 2017 Miles J. Padgett * 2016

Xiang Zhang Zhang Xiang (; born December 1963 in Nanjing) is a Chinese-American academic administrator, material scientist, optical engineer and physicist. He is the current Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he als ...

* 2015 John D. Joannopoulos * 2014

Costas Soukoulis Costas M. Soukoulis ( el, Κώστας Μ. Σούκουλης) is a Senior Scientist in the Ames Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritusat Iowa State University. He received his B.Sc. from University of Athens in 1974. He obtain ...

* 2013 * 2012

Jean Dalibard Jean Dalibard (born 8 December 1958) is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of ...

* 2011 Carlton M. Caves * 2010 Vladimir M. Shalaev * 2009 * 2008 Peter W. Milonni * 2007

Luigi Lugiato Luigi Lugiato (born December 17, 1944) is an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at University of Insubria (Varese/Como). He is best known for his work in theoretical nonlinear and quantum optics, and especially for the Lugiato–Lefever equ ...

* 2006 Richart Elliott Slusher * 2005 * 2004 David E. Pritchard * 2003 Howard Carmichael * 2002

John 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 ...

* 2001 Bernard Yurke * 2000 * 1999

Alain Aspect Alain Aspect (; born 15 June 1947) is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. Aspect was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, "for experiments with entangl ...

* 1998

Peter Zoller Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

* 1997 Boris Zeldovich * 1996 H. Jeffrey Kimble * 1995 * 1994 * 1992 Rodney Loudon * 1991 James P. Gordon * 1990 * 1989 * 1988

Girish Saran Agarwal Girish S. Agarwal, Fellow of the Royal Society UK, (born 7 July 1946) is a theoretical physicist. He is currently at the Texas A & M University with affiliations to the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Physics and Astronom ...

* 1987

Emil Wolf Emil Wolf (July 30, 1922 – June 2, 2018) was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory ...

* 1986

Herch Moysés Nussenzveig Herch Moysés Nussenzveig (16 January 1933 – 5 November 2022) was a Brazilian physicist, professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He authored several textbooks, notably the collection ...

* 1985

Roy J. Glauber Roy Jay Glauber (September 1, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New ...

* 1984 * 1983 Joseph W. Goodman * 1982

Leonard Mandel Leonard Mandel (May 9, 1927 – February 9, 2001) was an American physicist who contributed to the development of theoretical and experimental modern optics and is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the field of quantum optics. With ...

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Max Born Award
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