The Optical Society of America has announced this year’s recipients of 15 of its most prestigious awards, which are being distributed at a ceremony on 19 October during the society’s annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
Theodor W. Hänsen, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and professor of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, is receiving the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment, OSA’s most prestigious prize. Hänsch is being recognized “for seminal contributions and landmark advances in optical science and atomic physics.”
The late Stephen Benton, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory’s spatial imaging group, is being honored posthumously with the Edwin H. Land Medal “for seminal research and innovation in 3D imaging, including the famed rainbow hologram.” The medal is awarded jointly by OSA and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
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