2005
JOHN LEWIS HALL
Born
August 21, 1934 (age 85) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Nationality
United States
Alma mater Carnegie Institute of Technology Known for
Optical frequency comb
Awards
Department of Commerce Gold Medal (1969) Nobel Prize in Physics (2005) E. U. Condon Award, 1979 An ultrashort pulse of light in the time Davisson-Germer Prize 1988 domain. The electric field is a sinusoid Einstein Prize for Laser 1992 with a Gaussian envelope. The pulse Max Born Award 2002 length is on the order of a few 100 fs Rabi Award of the IEEE 2004 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Glasgow, 2007
Institutions University of Colorado Boulder, JILA, NIST Doctoral students
Jun Ye President George W. Bush meets with the 2005 Nobel Prize recipients. From left to right are Dr. John Hall, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Dr. Roy J. Glauber, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Richard R. Schrock and Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.
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