OSA Awards

Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
– recognizes outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education

Max Born Award
– recognizes contributions to physical optics

Distinguished Service Award
– recognizes service to the optical community

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award
– recognizes technical achievements in optical engineering. Deadline is July 2.

Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
– recognizes accomplishments in optical engineering

The Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award
– recognizes authorship of an outstanding book in the field of optics and photonics, published in the last six years, that has contributed significantly to research, teaching, or the optics and photonics industry (co-sponsored with SPIE). (presented in even-numbered years only)

Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
– recognizes contributions to optics based on semiconductor-based devices and optical materials, including basic science and technological applications

Edwin H. Land Medal
– recognizes pioneering entrepreneurial creativity that has had a major public impact (co-sponsored with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology)

OSA Leadership Award-New Focus/Bookham Prize
– recognizes an individual or group of optic professionals who has made a significant impact on the field of optics and/or made a significant contribution to society

Emmett N. Leith Medal
- recognizes seminal contributions to the field of optical information processing.

Ellis R. Lippincott Award
– recognizes contributions to vibrational spectroscopy (co-sponsored with the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy)

Adolph Lomb Medal
– recognizes noteworthy contributions made to optics before reaching the age of 35

C.E.K. Mees Medal
– recognizes interdisciplinary and international contributions (presented in odd-numbered years only)

William F. Meggers Award
– recognizes outstanding work in spectroscopy

David Richardson Medal
– recognizes contributions to optical engineering

Edgar D. Tillyer Award
– recognizes distinguished work in the field of vision (awarded in even-numbered years only)

Charles Hard Townes Award
– recognizes contributions to quantum electronics

John Tyndall Award
– recognizes contributions to fiber optic technology (co-sponsored with the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society). Deadline is August 10.

Herbert Walther Award
-established in 2007 by OSA and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), the award recognizes distinguished contributions in quantum optics and atomic physics as well as leadership in the international scientific community.

R. W. Wood Prize
– recognizes an outstanding discovery, scientific or technological achievement or invention

New Focus/Bookham Student Award
– established in 1997 to encourage research excellence, presentation prowess and leadership in the optics community among OSA student members

Allen Prize
– recognizing outstanding contributions to atmospheric remote sensing while a graduate student

Dekker Foundation Student Scholarship Award
– recognized an outstanding graduate student in photonics and optical engineering

Archie Mahan Prize
– recognizing the best feature article in Optics & Photonics News.