Charles Hard Townes Award
The Charles H. Townes Award of the Optical Society of America is a price for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers ). It is named after Charles H. Townes and has been awarded annually since 1981.
Award winners
- 1981 James P. Gordon , Herbert Zeiger
- 1982 C. Kumar Patel
- 1983 Robert W. Hellwarth
- 1984 Weniamin Pavlovich Chebotayev , 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 L. Tang
- 1997 Linn Mollenauer
- 1998 Marlan O. Scully
- 1999 Charles H. Henry
- 2000 Richard G. Brewer
- 2001 A. David Buckingham
- 2002 Charles V. Shank
- 2003 David Hanna
- 2004 Erich Ippen
- 2005 Paul Corkum
- 2006 Orazio Svelto
- 2007 Serge Haroche
- 2008 Robert R. Alfano
- 2009 Gérard Mourou
- 2010 Ataç Imamoglu
- 2011 Wilson Sibbett
- 2012 Philippe Grangier
- 2013 Günter Huber
- 2014 Masataka Nakazawa
- 2015 Ursula Keller
- 2016 Robert W. Boyd
- 2017 Adolf Giesen
- 2018 Peter Fritschel
- 2019 Alexander L. Gaeta
- 2020 Toshiki Tajima
Web links
- official website of the award at the Optical Society of America (osa.org)