The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the field. The award honors Willis E. Lamb, Jr., famous laser scientist and 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, who gave us many seminal insights and served as our guide in so many areas of physics and technology.
The 2024 winners were:
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Vanderlei Bagnato, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Texas A&M.
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Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University.
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Da-Wei Wang, Zhejiang University, China.
The award was presented at PQE-2024 on January 10, 2024.
The award is sponsored by the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) conference and presented at its Winter Colloquium in Snowbird, Utah. This conference, now in its 54th year, attracts researchers in laser physics and quantum electronics from around the globe.
Previous winners of the award are:
2016:
Robin Côté, Maciej Lewenstein, John Madey, Anton Zeilinger.