Starting in September, Dudley Herschbach will be entering a delocalized state, dividing his time between Harvard University, where he is the Frank B. Baird Jr Research Professor of Science emeritus in the department of chemistry and chemical biology, and Texas A&M University, where he has accepted a position as professor of physics for one semester each year in the physics department’s chemical physics program.
Gérard Mourou, Szymon Suckewer, and Sune Svanberg are the recipients of this year’s Willis E. Lamb Medal, presented in January at the 35th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics. Director of the laboratory of applied optics at France’s école Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées and école Polytechnique, Mourou was cited “for outstanding contributions to laser science, especially the development of short-pulse high-power lasers.” Suckewer, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, was recognized “for outstanding contributions to laser science, especially the...
