OSA Nobel Laureates

Physics
Chemistry
Physiology/Medicine

Physics

John C. Mather (2006)
OSA Member
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

Theodor W. Haensch (2005)
OSA Fellow
"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"

John L. Hall (2005)
OSA Fellow
"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"

Roy J. Glauber (2005)
OSA Fellow
"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

Wolfgang Ketterle (2001)
OSA Fellow
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

Carl Wieman (2001)
OSA Fellow
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

Eric Cornell (2001)
OSA Fellow
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

Zhores I. Alferov (2000)
OSA Fellow
"for basic work on information and communication technology"

William D. Phillips (1997)
OSA Honorary Member
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1997)
OSA Honorary Member
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"

Steven Chu (1997)
OSA Honorary Member
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"

Arthur L. Schawlow (1981)
OSA Honorary Member
"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"

Nicolaas Bloembergen (1981)
OSA Honorary Member
"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"

James Rainwater (1975)
OSA Fellow
"for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"

Dennis Gabor (1971)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his invention and development of the holographic method"

Alfred Kastler (1966)
OSA Honorary Member
"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"

Aleksandr Mikhailovish Prokharov (1964)
OSA Honorary Member
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"

Charles H. Townes (1964)
OSA Honorary Member
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"

Willis Eugene Lamb (1955)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"

Frederik Zernike (1953)
OSA Honorary Member "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"

Robert Andrews Millikan (1923)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect"

Albert Abraham Michelson (1907)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"

Chemistry

Robert F. Curl, Jr. (1996)
OSA Fellow
"for their discovery of fullerenes"

Gerhard Herzberg (1971)
OSA Honorary Member
"for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"

Physiology/Medicine

George Wald (1967)
OSA Honorary Member
"for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"

Haldan Keffer Hartline (1967)
OSA Honorary Member
"for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"