Charles Hard Townes Award

The Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers). It is named after Charles H. Townes and is awarded annually since 1981.^[1]

Laureates

1981 James P. Gordon, Herbert Zeiger
1982 Chandra Kumar N. Patel
1983 Robert W. Hellwarth
1984 Veniamin P. Chebotaev, John L. Hall
1985 Stephen E. Harris
1986 Yuen-Ron Shen
1987 Hermann A. Haus
1988 Arthur Ashkin
1989 Daniel J. Bradley
1990 Herbert Walther
1991 Elias Snitzer
1992 Nick Holonyak
1993 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1994 Joseph H. Eberly
1995 Ivan P. Kaminow
1996 Chung Liang Tang
1997 Linn F. Mollenauer
1998 Marlan O. Scully
1999 Charles H. Henry
2000 Richard G. Brewer
2001 A. David Buckingham
2002 Charles V. Shank
2003 David C. Hanna
2004 Erich P. Ippen
2005 Paul Corkum
2006 Orazio Svelto
2007 Serge Haroche
2008 Robert R. Alfano
2009 Gérard Mourou
2010 Atac Imamoglu
2011 Wilson Sibbett
2012 Philippe Grangier
2013 Guenter Huber
2014 Masataka Nakazawa
2015 Ursula Keller

References

↑ official Webpage of the Prize at the Optical Society of America

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