Max Born Award

This award honors Max Born, who made distinguished contributions to physics in general and to optics in particular. The award is presented to a person who has made outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental. It was established in 1982, the centenary of Born's birth, and is endowed by the United Technologies Research Center, Physical Optics Corporation, and individuals including Joseph Goodman.

The OSA Foundation is currently raising funds to permanently endow this award. Please consider making a donation to support this special honor. Your gift will be matched by OSA with a contribution to the OSAF General Fund.

Winners

Year	Name
2013	Yaron Silberberg
2012	Jean Dalibard
2011	Carlton M. Caves
2010	Vladimir M. Shalaev
2009	Mordechai Segev
2008	Peter W. Milonni
2007	Luigi Lugiato
2006	Richart Elliott Slusher
2005	Alexander E. Kaplan
2004	David E. Pritchard
2003	Howard John Carmichael
2002	John L. Hall
2001	Bernard Yurke
2000	Jagdeep Shah
1999	Alain Aspect
1998	Peter Zoller
1997	Boris Ya. Zel'dovich
1996	H. Jeffrey Kimble
1995	F. Tito Arecchi
1994	Valerian I. Tatarskii
1992	Rodney Loudon
1991	James P. Gordon
1990	Samuel L. McCall
1989	Dietrich Marcuse
1988	Girish Saran Agarwal
1987	Emil Wolf
1986	Herch M. Nussenzveig
1985	Roy J. Glauber
1984	Adolf W. Lohmann
1983	Joseph W. Goodman
1982	Leonard Mandel