James G. Fujimoto

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James G. Fujimoto (born September 28, 1957 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Fujimoto is considered a pioneer of optical coherence tomography (OCT), to whose widespread use and commercial success he has contributed significantly. The OCT procedure, which Fujimoto presented in Science in 1991 , is now one of the routine examinations in ophthalmology for the diagnosis of diseases such as glaucoma , diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration .

Fujimoto earned a bachelor's degree in 1979 , a master ’s degree in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1984 from Erich P. Ippen. in electrical engineering and computer science (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) , each at MIT. He has been a member of the teaching staff there since 1985. Today (as of 2017) he is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He also holds a visiting professorship in ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine . Fujimoto is one of the founders of the companies Advanced Ophthalmic Devices (now Zeiss ) for the application of OCT to the eye and LightLab Imaging (today St. Jude Medical ) for the application to the cardiovascular system .

In addition to OCT, Fujimoto deals with femtosecond laser physics and its applications.

He has received numerous awards, including the 1990 William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences , the Zeiss Research Award in 2011 , the Prémio de Visão António Champalimaud in 2012 , the Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America in 2015 and the 2017 Russ Prize from the United States National Academy of Engineering . In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in Poland .

Fujimoto has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2001, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002, and the National Academy of Sciences since 2006 . In 2004 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

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  1. ^ Nortel Institute for Telecommunications: Information Exchange. In: nit.utoronto.ca. December 14, 2001, accessed January 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Yali Jia, Steven T. Bailey, Thomas S. Hwang, Scott M. McClintic, Simon S. Gao: Quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography of vascular abnormalities in the living human eye . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 112 , no. 18 , May 5, 2015, ISSN  0027-8424 , p. E2395 – E2402 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1500185112 , PMID 25897021 ( pnas.org [accessed April 4, 2018]).
  3. ^ William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  4. ^ The Carl Zeiss Research Award. In: zeiss.de. June 19, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Award Recipients 2012. In: fchampalimaud.org. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  6. ^ Frederic Ives Medal / Quinn Prize. In: osa.org. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  7. ^ Professor James G. Fujimoto. In: nae.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  8. ^ James Fujimoto Awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. In: rle.mit.edu. February 20, 2015, accessed January 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Prof. James G. Fujimoto. In: nae.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ James Fujimoto. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fujimoto, James G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fujimoto, James; Fujimoto, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois