Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Awards
To increase the visibility of the optical engineer, OSA annually presents the Engineering Excellence Awards. Now named in honor of Paul F. Forman, these awards recognize technical achievements in optical engineering by individual(s) or teams. Nominations are solicited in: products, engineering publication, process, software, patents, engineering education, contributions to society, engineering management and furthering public appreciation of optical engineering. The Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Awards are sponsored by Zygo Corporation, Canon, Inc., and friends of Paul F. Forman.
The OSA Foundation is accepting donations in memory of Dr. Forman to support the endowment of the Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Awards. To make a donation online please click here and select “Annual Campaign and/or Award/Medal Endowments”. If you would prefer to receive a donation form by mail or fax please email foundation@osa.org.
You may download the form below or, for Word files of the forms or printed copies,
please email awards@osa.org.
Engineering Excellence Awards Winners
| Year |
Names |
| 2007 |
Ming C. Wu |
| 2006 |
Jean-Claude Diels |
| 2005 |
René-Jean Essiambre |
| |
Michael G. Littman |
| 2004 |
Shun-Lien Chuang |
| |
S. Chandrasekhar |
| 2003 |
L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan |
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Paul R. Dumas |
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Mark E. Lowry |
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Alan H. Gnauck |
| 2002 |
Tim Day |
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Christopher R. Doerr |
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David W. Peckham |
| 2001 |
Henry A. Blauvelt |
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Michael A. Klug |
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David G. Mehuys |
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Dale E. Morton |
| 2000 |
Joseph W. Anello, Jr. |
| |
Arne Erstling |
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Andrew C. Tam |
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Robert L. Hartman |
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Leonard J.P. Ketelsen |
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Judith A. Grenko |
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Won-Tien Tsang |
| 1999 |
Denis Barbier |
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Valentin Gapontsev |
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Igor Koltchanov |
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Olaf Lenzmann |
| |
Herman Reedy |
| 1998 |
Kenneth L. Walker |
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Lee R. Shiozawa |
| 1997 |
Donald M. Combs |
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John J. Mader |
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Jeffrey W. Roblee |
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Edward A. Yobaccio |
|
Paul R. Yoder, Jr. |
| 1996 |
Gary Blough |
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Teddi C. Laurin |
| 1995 |
F.J. Duarte |
| |
John D. Gonglewski |
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Gary Guenther |
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Melvyn H. Kreitzer |
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Frank Luecke |
| |
David G. Voelz |
| 1994 |
Peter P. Clark |
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Dale E. Crane |
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Jay M. Eastman |
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John Michael Guerra |
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Jon Van Tassell |
| 1993 |
John H. Adams |
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Lacy Gordon Cook |
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Gaétan Duplain |
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Yury Pavlovich |
| |
Khimich |
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Sergey Vladimirovich |
| |
Lubarsky |
| |
Franklin R. Nash |
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Padman Parayanthal |
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David A. Roberts |
| 1992 |
Bertrand H. Johnson |
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Louis A. Koszi |
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Anthony R. Phillips, Jr. |
| 1991 |
Leroy D. Dickson |
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J. Tendra S. Goela |
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Un-Chul Paek |
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Michael A. Pickering |
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Raymond L. Taylor |
| 1990 |
Lawrence Lin |
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Eric Rawson |
| 1989 |
Stanley W. Haskell |
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Robert A. Jones |
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David Smithgall |
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Gary Starkweather |
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Laurence S. Watkins |