Arthur L. Schawlow Award
The Arthur L. Schawlow Award has been presented annually since 1982 by the Laser Institute of America (LIA). It is intended to honor an outstanding life's work in basic or applied laser research and development that has contributed to the fundamental understanding of the interaction between light and matter.
The award consists of $ 2,000 in prize money, a lifetime membership to the Laser Institute of America, and a silver medal. It is awarded during the International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO) .
Award winners
- 1982 Arthur Schawlow
- 1983 Arthur H. Guenther
- 1984 C. Kumar N. Patel
- 1985 Leon Goldman
- 1986 William B. Bridges
- 1987 Sidney Charschan
- 1988 Francis A. L'Esperance junior
- 1989 Milton Chang
- 1990 Herbert Dwight
- 1991 Anthony E. Siegman
- 1992 Yoshiaki Arata
- 1993 James L. Hobart
- 1994 Rocco Lobraico
- 1995 David Belforte
- 1996 William Steen
- 1997 Conrad M. Banas
- 1998 Robert L. Byer
- 1999 William Schwartz
- 2000 Theodor W. Hänsch
- 2001 Walter W. Duley
- 2002 Akira Matsunawa
- 2003 Jyotirmoy Mazumder
- 2005 David H. Sliney
- 2006 Edward Metzbower
- 2007 Marshall G. Jones
- 2008 Eckhard Beyer
- 2009 Valentin P. Gapontsev
- 2010 Steven Chu
- 2011 Berthold Leibinger
- 2012 Isamu Miyamoto
- 2013 Ursula Keller
- 2014 Reinhart Poprawe
- 2015 Keming You
- 2016 Yongfeng Lu
- 2017 Paul Seiler
- 2018 Don Scifres
- 2019 Lin Li
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nomination criteria ( Memento of August 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 21 kB)
- ^ 38th International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics. (PDF; 8.8 MB) In: lia.org. Laser Institute of America, September 11, 2019, p. 21 , accessed September 16, 2019 .