OSA Today
OSA Today
Dainty (left), Scully and Sandner at the award ceremony.
During CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011, Chris Dainty, OSA President, and Wolfgang Sandner, president of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) presented the joint 2011 Hebert Walther award to Marlan Scully of Texas A&M and Princeton Universities, U.S.A., for his fundamental and applied contributions: from the quantum theory of optical and micro-masers to the quantum eraser, and from inversionless and correlated emission lasers to anthrax detection. Dainty also recognized two new OSA Fellows: Stefan A. Maier, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, and Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Italy.
…Log in or become a member to view the full text of this article.
This article may be available for purchase via the search at Optica Publishing Group.
Optica Members get the full text of Optics & Photonics News, plus a variety of other member benefits.