The Max Born Award is given by the Optical Society (formerly the Optical Society of America) for "outstanding contributions to

physical optics In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. This usage tends not to include effec ...

", and is named after

Max Born Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a n ...

Recipients

Source
The Optical Society
* 2022 Yuri Kivshar * 2021 Anne L'Huillier * 2020 Nader Engheta * 2019

Govind P. Agrawal Govind P. Agrawal is an Indian American physicist and a fellow of Optica, Life Fellow of the IEEE, and Distinguished Fellow of the Optical Society of India. He is the recipient of James C. Wyant Professorship of Optics at the Institute of Optics ...

* 2018

Demetrios N. Christodoulides Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...

* 2017

Miles J. Padgett Miles John Padgett (born 1 June 1963) is a Royal Society Research Professor of Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He has held the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy since 2011 and served as Vice Princip ...

* 2016 Xiang Zhang * 2015

John D. Joannopoulos John D. Joannopoulos (born 1947) is an American physicist, focused in condensed matter theory. He is currently the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Elected Member of the National Academy of Scien ...

* 2014 Costas Soukoulis * 2013 * 2012 Jean Dalibard * 2011

Carlton M. Caves Carlton Morris Caves is an American theoretical physicist. He is currently Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico. Caves works in the areas of physics of information; information, entro ...

* 2010

Vladimir M. Shalaev Vladimir (Vlad) M. Shalaev (born February 18, 1957) is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University. Education and career Shalaev ear ...

* 2009 * 2008

Peter W. Milonni Peter Walden Milonni (born 5 May 1947) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with quantum optics, laser physics, quantum electrodynamics and the Casimir effect. Milonni earned his PhD in 1974 at the University of Rochester. He then wor ...

* 2007 Luigi Lugiato * 2006

Richart Elliott Slusher Richart Elliott Slusher (born 1938) is a regents researcher and a principal research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and the director of the Georgia Tech Quantum Institute. Education Slusher received a Ph.D. in physics from th ...

* 2005 * 2004

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 ...

* 2003

Howard Carmichael Howard John Carmichael (born 17 January 1950) is a British-born New Zealand theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics and the theory of open quantum systems. He is the Dan Walls Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland and a pr ...

* 2002 John L. Hall * 2001

Bernard Yurke Bernard Yurke is an American physicist, currently a Distinguished Research Professor at Boise State University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. See also *DNA machine *DNA nanotechnology DNA na ...

* 2000 * 1999 Alain Aspect * 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 ...

* 1997

Boris Zeldovich Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich (russian: Бори́с Я́ковлевич Зельдо́вич; 23 April 1944 – 16 December 2018) was a Russian-American physicist and a son of the famous Soviet physicist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. He was doctor ...

* 1996 H. Jeffrey Kimble * 1995 * 1994 * 1992

Rodney Loudon Professor Rodney Loudon (born 25 July 1934) was a British physicist, best known for his work in quantum optics. He was Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Essex.

* 1991

James P. Gordon James Power Gordon (March 20, 1928 – June 21, 2013) was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as ...

* 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 Astronomy ...

* 1987 Emil Wolf * 1986 Herch Moysés Nussenzveig * 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 ...

* 1984 * 1983

Joseph W. Goodman Joseph Wilfred Goodman is an American electrical engineer and physicist. Education Goodman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University in 1958 and Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrica ...

* 1982 Leonard Mandel

References

External links

Max Born Award
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