Herbert Walther Award

The Herbert Walther Award honors Professor Herbert Walther for the seminal influence of his path-breaking innovations in quantum optics and atomic physics, and for his wide-ranging contributions to the international scientific community. The Award is jointly made by Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and presented by each society in alternate years.

The Award recognizes distinguished contributions in quantum optics and atomic physics as well as leadership in the international scientific community.

DPG will collect nominations for the 2010 Herbert Walther Award and the published deadline for nominations is 25 June 2009.  For more information, please contact Mrs. Felisa Froembgen at email froembgen@dpg-physik.de or see http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/preise/index.html.

The first Herbert Walther Award will be presented to David J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Time and Frequency Division, Boulder, Colorado, USA, for his seminal contributions to quantum information physics and metrology, and the development of trapped ion techniques for applications to basic quantum phenomena, plasma physics, and optical clocks. 

The 2009 award will be presented in a special session during CLEO/Europe – EQEC 2009 at Messe Munich International, Munich, Germany, on Tuesday, 16 June, and will include an address from Dr. Wineland, “Quantum control experiments with trapped atomic ions.”

The OSA Foundation has endowed this award with the support of corporate contributors, including Toptica Photonics AG and Messe München International – LASER World of PHOTONICS and individual contributors Tony and Jeannie Siegman, Joseph and Shirley Eberly, Gerd Leuchs, Marlan Scully, Peter Knight, Wolfgang Ketterle and Y. Ron Shen.