Frederic Ives Medal
The Frederic Ives Medal is the highest award of the Optical Society of America and honors scientists for outstanding achievements in the field of optics . The award was first presented in 1929. The award is financed by the Jarus W. Quinn Ives Medal Foundation.
Award winners
- 1929: Edward Leamington Nichols
- 1931: Theodore Lyman
- 1933: Robert Williams Wood
- 1935: George Ellery Hale
- 1937: Herbert E. Ives
- 1939: August Herman Pound
- 1941: Blessed Hecht
- 1943: Loyd A. Jones
- 1945: William Coblentz
- 1947: William Frederick Meggers
- 1949: George R. Harrison
- 1951: Brian O'Brien
- 1952: Ira S. Bowen
- 1953: HM Randall
- 1954: Irvine C. Gardner
- 1955: Edward Hulburt
- 1956: John D. Strong
- 1957: Arthur C. Hardy
- 1958: Deane B. Judd
- 1959: WEK Middleton
- 1960: Richard Tousey
- 1961: Seibert Q. Duntley
- 1962: Max Herzberger
- 1963: Ralph A. Sawyer
- 1964: Gerhard Herzberg
- 1965: James G. Baker
- 1966: George Wald
- 1967: Edwin Herbert Land
- 1968: Edward Condon
- 1969: David H. Rank
- 1970: Robert E. Hopkins
- 1971: A. Francis Turner
- 1972: R. Clark Jones
- 1973: Rudolf Kingslake
- 1974: David L. MacAdam
- 1975: Ali Javan
- 1976: Arthur L. Schawlow
- 1977: Emil Wolf
- 1978: Harold H. Hopkins
- 1979: Nicolaas Bloembergen
- 1980: Aden Meinel
- 1981: Georg H. Hass
- 1982: Lorrin A. Riggs
- 1983: Boris P. Stoicheff
- 1984: Herwig Kogelnik
- 1985: Emmett Leith
- 1986: Amnon Yariv
- 1987: Anthony E. Siegman
- 1988: Anthony J. DeMaria
- 1989: C. Kumar N. Patel
- 1990: Joseph W. Goodman
- 1991: John Lewis Hall
- 1992: Robert W. Terhune
- 1993: Leonard Mandel
- 1994: Hermann A. Haus
- 1995: Robert M. Boynton
- 1996: Charles H. Townes
- 1997: Tingye Li
- 1998: Arthur Ashkin
- 1999: Stephen E. Harris
- 2000: Alexander Michailowitsch Prokhorov
- 2001: Nick Holonyak
- 2002: James P. Gordon
- 2003: Herbert Walther
- 2004: David Wineland
- 2005: Theodor Hänsch
- 2006: Erich P. Ippen
- 2007: Daniel Kleppner
- 2008: Peter L. Knight
- 2009: Robert L. Byer
- 2010: Joseph H. Eberly
- 2011: Ivan P. Kaminow
- 2012: Marlan O. Scully
- 2013: Alain Aspect
- 2014: Paul B. Corkum
- 2015: James G. Fujimoto
- 2016: Gérard A. Mourou
- 2017: Margaret M. Murnane
- 2018: Rod C. Alferness
- 2019: Eli Yablonovitch
- 2020: Ursula Keller