The Optical Society of America recently announced the recipients of its awards and medals for 2004. These prizes will be presented at a ceremony on 12 October at OSA’s annual meeting in Rochester, New York.
David J. Wineland will receive the society’s most prestigious prize, the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment. He is being recognized for the “development of laser-manipulated quantum engineering at the single-atom level and application of these methods to quantum logic systems, atomic frequency standards, and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics.” Wineland is leader of the ion storage group at the time and frequency division of NIST in Boulder, Colorado.
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The recipient of the Edwin H. Land Medal, awarded jointly by OSA and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, is Steven K. Case, founder and chairman of CyberOptics Corp in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was selected as medallist for his “pioneering work in laser-based...
