Edgar D. Tillyer Award
The Tillyer Award was established in 1953 through an endowment from the American Optical Co. It is presented to a person who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision, including (but not limited to) the optics, physiology, anatomy or psychology of the visual system. Beginning in 2016, this award is presented annually.
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
2018 -
Martin S. Banks
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For applying an innovative and rigorous scientific approach to make significant contributions in the fields of visual development, sensory cue combination and 3D vision.
2017 -
Ken Nakayama
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for wide ranging studies of the visual system, especially for unique and critical contributions to the formulation of a distinct level of visual processing, that of visual surfaces
2016 -
Dennis M. Levi
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For ground-breaking studies of normal spatial vision, plasticity in the adult visual system, and amblyopia.
2014 -
Suzanne P. McKee
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For contributions to fundamental understanding of visual motion and of normal and abnormal human stereo vision, revealing the limits and character of brain mechanisms responsible for the perception of depth
2012 -
Gerald H. Jacobs
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For contributions to fundamental understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying color vision , and for pioneering comparative studies which have revealed the nature, variations, and evolution of primate color vision
2010 -
Stephen Allen Burns
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For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the photoreceptor mechanisms through electrophysiology, psychophysics, optics and in vivo retinal imaging
2008 -
Brian A. Wandell
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For outstanding contributions to the science of color vision and color imaging systems, and for pioneering work on brain imaging that has illuminated the organization and function of human visual processing
2006 -
Donald I.A. MacLeod
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for unparalleled virtuosity in the psychophysical dissection of the visual pathway into the stages that culminate in color, spatial and temporal vision
2004 -
John Krauskopf
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For creative and inventive work in many aspects of vision, and especially for psychophysical and electrophysiological experiments that have changed the way post-receptoral and cortical color vision mechanisms are conceived and studied
2002 -
George Sperling
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For his innovative research in human visual information processing, specifically in: flicker perception; spatial vision; binocular vision; masking; visual memory; visual attention; and motion perception
2000 -
John Dixon Mollon
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For his leadership for over a quarter of a century in vision research, with contributions to psychophysics, microspectometry, molecular genetics, field studies of wild primates and normal and defective color vision
1998 -
David R. Williams
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For investigations into the psychophysics and optics of vision that have been uniquely innovative, imaginatively conceived, and impeccably executed, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the factors limiting visual resolution
1996 -
John G. Robson
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For research in visual psychophysics, physiology, and optics, which has shown us how to apply linear systems theory and sinusoidal gratings to characterize how visual contrast is transmitted through the optics, retina, and cortex, to perception, elucidating the relation between the visual scene in front of the eye and the neural image in the brain
1994 -
Jacob Nachmias
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For his theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of spatial vision
1992 -
Horace B. Barlow
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For his outstanding contributions to the basic understanding of the physiology and psychophysics of vision
1990 -
Vivianne S. Pokorny
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For contributions to basic and applied vision research, particularly in the areas of cone fundamentals, defective color vision, and flicker
1990 -
Joel Pokorny
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For contributions to basic and applied vision research, particularly in the areas of cone fundamentals, defective color vision, and flicker
1988 -
Russell L. De Valois
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For contributions to the understanding of mechanisms of vision, particularly the analysis and encoding of information in the visual nervous system
1986 -
Donald H. Kelly
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For his outstanding analysis of spatial, temporal, and chromatic responses of the human visual system
1984 -
Mathew Alpern
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For many and outstanding contributions to visual science, particularly color vision, and for providing a benchmark standard of scientific achievement for the vision community
1982 -
Dorothea Jameson
[Citation]
No formal citation, refer to Optics News 1982/Vol.8, No. 1/Page 30.
1982 -
Leo M. Hurvich
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No formal citation, refer to Optics News 1982/Vol.8, No. 1/Page 30.
1980 -
Fergus W. Campbell
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For his contributions to basic biophysics through studies of neural mechanisms for vision as well as his clinical studies
1978 -
Gerald Westheimer
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For his contributions to our understanding of linear systems, vergence movements, and modulation transfer function of the eye and to the organization of spatial vision
1976 -
Floyd Ratliff
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In recognition of his contributions to our understanding of retinal interaction and the role it plays in the processing of visual information
1974 -
Yves Le Grand
No citation available
1971 -
Louise L. Sloan
No citation available
1967 -
Kenneth N. Ogle
No citation available
1965 -
Walter S. Stiles
No citation available
1963 -
Clarence H. Graham
No citation available
1961 -
Glenn A. Fry
No citation available
1959 -
Gertrude Rand
No citation available
1957 -
Charles Sheard
No citation available
1955 -
Adelbert Ames, Jr.
No citation available
1954 -
Edger D. Tillyer
No citation available
Deceased
Martin S. Banks, 2018 Recipient