A highlight of the Optical Society of America’s annual fall meeting in Long Beach, California, last October, was the presentation of several awards in recognition of notable contributions to the field.
The 2001 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment, OSA’s most prestigious honor, was presented to Nick Holonyak Jr, John Bardeen Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Holonyak was recognized by the society for his “outstanding, celebrated, and precedent-setting work in semiconductor science and technology.” The Esther Hoffman Beller Medal for 2001 went to Douglas S. Goodman, a Distinguished Engineer at the Polaroid Corp in Waltham, Massachusetts. Goodman was cited by OSA for his “dedication to teach and inspire others about optics.”
Duncan T. Moore, the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics in New York, received the 2001 OSA...
