SPIE announces Award winners for 2011

Bellingham, WA--The 2011 SPIE award winners were announced, including Harrison H. Barrett from the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), who won SPIE's highest honor--the Gold Medal of the Society. Each year SPIE recognizes outstanding achievements through its awards program.

The Awards Committee is pleased to announce these 2011 SPIE Award recipients: Gold Medal of the Society to Harrison H. Barrett, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona; A. E. Conrady Award to Alan Greynolds, Ruda-Cardinal; Harold E. Edgerton Award to Daniel James Kane, Mesa Photonics; Dennis Gabor Award to Wolfgang Osten, University of Stuttgart; George W. Goddard Award to James H. Churnside, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; G.G. Stokes Award to Johannes Fitzgerald de Boer, VU University, Amsterdam and Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute; Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology to Brian Thompson, University of Rochester; Frits Zernike Award in Microlithography to Andrew R. Neureuther, University of California, Berkeley, CA; SPIE Early Career Achievement Award to Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; SPIE Educator Award to The Active Learning in Optics and Photonics (ALOP) Team, UNESCO, Paris, France; and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award to James J. Coleman, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

SPIE presents several yearly awards that recognize outstanding individual and team technical accomplishments and meritorious service to the Society. SPIE urges you to nominate a colleague for his or her outstanding achievements. Nominations may be made through October 1 of any given year and are considered active for three years from the submission date. Visit http://spie.org/x1164.xml for instructions and nomination forms.

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent and career and professional growth.

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