The 2003 Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics was awarded to Leon Cohen, Michael S. Feld, and Herschel Rabitz at the Winter Conference of Quantum Electronics, held in Snowbird, Utah. Cohen, a professor in Hunter College’s physics and astronomy department, was recognized for “pioneering work on quantum quasi-probability distributions and the closely related applied field of time-frequency analysis.” Feld was cited for “the first experimental demonstrations of super-radiance and the microlaser and for pioneering applications of optics to biological physics.” He is a professor of physics and director of the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory at MIT. Rabitz, a professor of chemistry at Princeton University, was acknowledged for “inventing the learning algorithm approach to the coherent control of quantum phenomena with important and wide-ranging applications.”
In March, Mark Cardillo became the executive director of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation in New York...
