Charles Hard Townes Award

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The Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers). It is named after Charles H. Townes and is awarded annually since 1981.

Laureates

1981 James P. Gordon, Herbert Zeiger

1982 Chandra Kumar N. Patel

1983 Robert W. Hellwarth

1984 Veniamin P. Chebotaev, John L. Hall

1985 Stephen E. Harris

1986 Yuen-Ron Shen

1987 Hermann A. Haus

1988 Arthur Ashkin

1989 Daniel J. Bradley

1990 Herbert Walther

1991 Elias Snitzer

1992 Nick Holonyak

1993 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

1994 Joseph H. Eberly

1995 Ivan P. Kaminow

1996 Chung Liang Tang

1997 Linn F. Mollenauer

1998 Marlan O. Scully

1999 Charles H. Henry

2000 Richard G. Brewer

2001 A. David Buckingham

2002 Charles V. Shank

2003 David C. Hanna

2004 Erich P. Ippen

2005 Paul Corkum

2006 Orazio Svelto

2007 Serge Haroche

2008 Robert R. Alfano

2009 Gérard Mourou

2010 Atac Imamoglu

2011 Wilson Sibbett

2012 Philippe Grangier

2013 Guenter Huber

2014 Masataka Nakazawa

2015 Ursula Keller

2016 Robert W. Boyd

References

Charles Hard Townes Award Wikipedia

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