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The 1998 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
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Awarded May, 1998, at Texas A&M University.
This was the inaugural year for the Lamb Award.
Subsequent awards were made at the annual
Winter
Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics.
- Ali Javan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- For the invention of the helium-neon laser.
- Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University
- Paul Mandel, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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For contributions to the study of atomic coherence
effects in masers and lasers.
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Ali Javan |
Olga Kocharovskaya |
Paul Mandel |
Javan photo copyright © 1996 Betty Blair,
Azerbaijan International Magazine,
AZER.com.
All rights reserved. Used with permission.
(Original context).
Other Information:
- Photo of the inaugural presentation
of the award.
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