James J. Wynne

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James J. Wynne (born March 19, 1943 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist, known for pioneering work on laser surgery.

Wynne studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1964, a master's degree in 1965 and a doctorate in applied physics in 1969. He then went into research at IBM , first at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, then at Thomas J. Watson Research Center (WRC) north of New York City .

He dealt with nonlinear optics of semiconductors and insulators, nonlinear spectroscopy of atomic and molecular vapors, physics of clusters , use of lasers for etching and in medicine (for example fluorescence studies of tissue). In 1981 he was a pioneer with Rangaswamy Srinivasan and Samuel E. Blum at IBM in the development of surgery with excimer lasers . They recognized the potential and on this basis Srinivasan later developed the use of the laser in eye surgery ( PRK and Lasik) with Bodil Braren and the eye surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Stephen Trokel . Wynne himself was working on applications in dermatology at the time with doctors from New York University Medical School (1985).

Wynne was a long-time manager of nonlinear spectroscopy, laser physics and chemistry, and biology and molecular physics at the IBM WRC. He was visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Dartmouth College, and Johns Hopkins University. He has been responsible for liaising the WRC with local schools since the 1990s. He is also researching the development of intelligent scalpels with excimer lasers to remove necrotic skin areas such as burns.

In 2004 he received the RW Wood Prize , in 2010 the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and in 2013 the Russ Prize of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2011 he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the IEEE, and the Optical Society of America (OSA). In 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was a co-founder of the APS Forum for Education and was on the APS Committee for Education and also on the OSA. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2015 .

1982/83 he was co-editor of an edition of the Journal of the Optical Society of America.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Randall Lane, Ralph Linsker, James Wynne, Torres, Geronemus: Ultraviolet-Laser Ablation of Skin . In: Archives of Dermatology 121, 609-617 (1985)
  3. ↑ Lane, Wynne, Geronemus: Ultraviolet Laser Ablation of Skin: Healing Studies and a thermal model . In: Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 6, 504-513 (1987)
personal data
SURNAME Wynne, James J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn