John Tyndall Award
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The John Tyndall Award recognizes an individual who has made "pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology."
The award is named for John Tyndall (1820-1893), who first demonstrated internal reflection, and presented by the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS).
[edit] Recipients
- 2008 Robert W. Tkach
- 2007 Emmanuel Desurvire
- 2006 Donald R. Scifres
- 2005 Roger Stolen
- 2004 Larry A. Coldren
- 2003 Andrew Chraplyvy
- 2002 Neal S. Bergano
- 2001 Tatsuo Izawa
- 2000 Stewart Personick
- 1999 John B. MacChesney
- 1998 Kenichi Iga
- 1997 Ivan P. Kaminow
- 1996 Kenneth O. Hill
- 1995 Tingye Li
- 1994 Elias Snitzer
- 1993 Yasuharu Suematsu
- 1992 Donald B. Keck
- 1991 David N. Payne
- 1990 Thomas G. Giallorenzi
- 1989 S. E. Miller
- 1988 Michael K. Barnoski
- 1987 Robert D. Maurer
