Sajeev John
Sajeev John (* 1957 ) is a Canadian physicist . He is Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto and the Government of Canada Research Chair holder .
Life
He received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1984. His Ph. D. work at Harvard introduced the theory of classical wave localization and, in part, the localization of light in three-dimensional strong breaking dielectrics. From 1984 to 1986 he was a Postdoc Fellow at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a kind of laboratory advisor at the Corporate Research Science Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering from 1985 to 1989.
From 1986 to 1989 he was Assistant Professor of Physics at Princeton University . In 1987, while at Princeton, he and Eli Yablonovitch came up with the concept of a new class of materials, the photonic crystal . This provided a more complete explanation of his original 1984 concept for the localization of light. In 1989 he was with Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore, now Telcordia Technologies) in Red Bank, NJ. In the fall of 1989 he went to the University of Toronto. There he was a Principal Investigator for Photonics Research Ontario and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
John received the Killam Fellowship of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship (USA), the Fellowship of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Germany). He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America , the Royal Society of Canada and is an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society (at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics , Halle / Saale).
Awards
- McLean Fellowship of the University of Toronto 1996 (first prize winner)
- Herzberg Medal for Physics 1996
- Steacie Prize in Science and Engineering from the National Research Council of Canada 1997
- King Faisal International Prize in Science 2001, together with C. N. Yang .
- Canada's Platinum Medal for Science and Medicine 2002 (first ever award winner)
- Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of Canada 2004
- Brockhouse Canada Prize 2004 (first ever winner) together with Geoff Ozin
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) LEOS International Quantum Electronics Award 2007 (for the invention and development of light-trapping crystals and elucidation of their properties and applications )
- Brockhouse Medal for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists 2007
- CV Raman Chair Professorship of the Government of India 2007
- Quantum Electronics Award 2007
- IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award 2008
Web links
- Sajeev John's University of Toronto home page
- Sajeev John
- Sajeev John at Science.ca
- Literature by and about Sajeev John in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sajeev Strong Localization of Photons in Certain Disordered Dielectric Superlattices . in: Physical Review Letters, Volume 58, 1987, 2486-2489
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | John, Sajeev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |