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27 April 2012
Three OSA Fellows Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Three OSA Fellows Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
WASHINGTON, April 27 - Three Fellows of the Optical Society (OSA) were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of their contributions to physics and engineering sciences and technologies, respectively. They were among 220 new members, including 203 fellows and 17 foreign honorary members.
The OSA Fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science this year are:
- Philip Howard Bucksbaum, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science; Director, Stanford PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science; Chair of the Stanford Photon Physics Faculty at SLAC; Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University. Phil is also the current vice president of OSA.
- John B. Pendry, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London
- Eli Yablonovitch, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
According to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, “the Academy has elected leading ‘thinkers and doers’ from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the 20th. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.”
For a list of all of this year’s members and fellows of the Academy, visit the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website.
About OSA
Uniting more than 130,000 professionals from 175 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visit www.osa.org.
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