SPIE recognizes accomplishments by individuals and teams in photonics
For outstanding individual and team technical accomplishments and service to SPIE (Bellingham, WA), the society is presenting several annual awards.
Gold Medal of the Society--James Harrington, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, for his seminal contributions to the field of specialty fiber optics and his pioneering work in the development of infrared transmissive fiber optics and their applications in laser power delivery, chemical and thermal sensing, and spectroscopy. View press release.
Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award--Brian Wilson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada, for his many contributions to biomedical optics over the past 30 years, including his pioneering work in photodynamic therapy (PDT). View press release.
Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award--Naomi Halas, Rice University, Houston, TX, for her invention of biocompatible nanoparticles and their innovative applications in imaging, diagnostics, and photothermal cancer therapy. View press release.
A.E. Conrady Award--Matthew Rimmer, retired, Optical Research Associates, Pasadena, CA, for his contributions to optical design algorithm development as exemplified by his work in the area of wavefront differential tolerancing. View press release.
Harold E. Edgerton Award--Jeff Squier, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, for his seminal contributions to femtosecond lasers and amplifiers, laser filamentation, ultrafast spectroscopy, femtosecond micromachining, ophthalmic procedures with ultrafast lasers, and high-speed nonlinear optical microscopy. View press release.
Dennis Gabor Award--Pramod Rastogi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, for his groundbreaking research in the development of high resolution and multi-component parametric phase formulation methods for the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases and their derivatives from holographic interference patterns. View press release.
George W. Goddard Award--James Bock, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for his development of sensitive bolometer arrays for studies of distant, dusty galaxies and the cosmic microwave background radiation, leading to their use on the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on the Herschel Space Telescope and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on the Planck Surveyor spacecraft. View press release.
G.G. Stokes Award--J. Scott Tyo, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, for his contributions to the theory of polarimeter optimization, the characterization and calibration of polarimeters, and to the understanding of microgrid polarimeter data processing. View press release.
Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology--Rajpal Sirohi, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India, for his important contributions to applied optics and his many international activities to spread his knowledge. View press release.
Frits Zernike Award in Microlithography--Mordechai Rothschild, MIT's Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA, for his leadership in programs that have enabled the advancement of nanolithography in the deep-UV (248 and 193 nm) and the vacuum-UV (157 and 121 nm). View press release.
SPIE Early Career Achievement Award--Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, for his innovative experimental and theoretical work on photonic engineering for solar energy devices and Casimir forces. View press release.
SPIE Educator Award--Cristina Solano, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (CIO), in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, for her outstanding contributions in optics education and outreach, and for her valuable outreach activities for extending the knowledge of science both in general and in optics in particular for children and teenagers. View press release.
SPIE Technology Achievement Award--Rajendra Singh, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, for his efforts in the elucidation and exploitation of photonic effects in rapid thermal processing for semiconductor manufacturing, and his technical leadership of photovoltaic technology. View press release.
SPIE seeks nominations for the 2015 awards. Nominations may be made through October 1 and are considered active for three years from the submission date. For instructions and nomination forms: www.spie.org/x1164.xml
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Conard Holton
Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.