The Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the

Optical Society Optica, founded as the Optical Society of America (later the Optical Society), is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals, organizes conferences and exhibitions, and ca ...

is a prize for young scientists (within 10 years of their highest degree) for their contributions to optics. It is named after

Adolph Lomb Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo, and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name with German origins. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', mean ...

, treasurer of the Optical Society of America from its founding until his death in 1942.

Medal winners

*1940

David MacAdam David Lewis MacAdam (July 1, 1910 – March 9, 1998) was an American physicist and color scientist who made important contributions to color science and technology in the fields of colorimetry, color discrimination, color photography and televis ...

*1942 James G. Baker *1944 R. Clark Jones *1946 Wayne G. Norton *1948 David S. Grey *1950 H. Richard Blackwell *1952 Aden B. Meinel *1954 William Sinton *1956 Walter R. J. Brown *1958 Edward L. O'Neill *1960 Ian Mills *1962

Jean-Pierre Barrat Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to: People * Karine Jean-Pierre b.1977, White House Deputy Press Secretary for President Joe Biden 2021- * Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet (1766–1823), French statesman and Peer of France * Eugenia Pierre ( ...

*1964 Gordon H. Spencer *1966 C. Kumar Patel *1968 Douglas C. Sinclair *1970 Marlan O. Scully *1972 Robert L. Byer *1974 James Forsyth *1976 Marc D. Levenson *1978

Eli Yablonovitch Eli Yablonovitch (born 15 December 1946) is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John, founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987.M.Kapoor (2013Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures page 58 He and his team were the first ...

*1980 David M. Bloom *1982 Won T. Tsang *1984 Edward H. Adelson *1986 David A. B. Miller *1988 Janis A. Valdmanis *1990

Andrew M. Weiner Andrew Marc Weiner OSA Fellow, OSA National Academy of Engineering, NAE National Academy of Inventors, NAI (Born July 25, 1958-2024) was an American electrical engineer, educator and researcher known for contributions to the fields of ultrafast op ...

*1992 David F. Welch *1992 Mohammed N. Islam *1993 Henry C. Kapteyn *1994 Robert W. Schoenlein *1995 Turan Erdoğan *1996 Frederick A. Kish Jr. *1997 Ekmel Özbay *1998 Benjamin J. Eggleton *1999

Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Education and ca ...

*2000

Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin (); born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. Early life Mikhail "Misha" Lukin was born in M ...

*2001 Barbara A. Paldus *2002 Susana Marcos Celestino *2003 Alexei Vladimirovich Sokolov *2004

Randy Bartels Randy Alan Bartels is an American investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research and a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been awarded the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of Ame ...

*2005 Marin Soljacic *2006 John Charles Howell *2007

Shanhui Fan Shanhui Fan (; born 1972) is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and physicist, with a focus on theoretical, computational and numerical aspects of photonics and electromagnetism. He is a professor of electrical engineering, and a profes ...

*2008

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*2009 Rebekah A. Drezek *2010

Jeremy O'Brien Jeremy O'Brien (born 1975, Australia) is a physicist who researches in quantum optics, optical quantum metrology and quantum information science. He co-founded and is CEO of the quantum computing firm PsiQuantum. Formerly, he was Professorial ...

*2011 Elizabeth Hillman *2012

Hatice Altug Hatice Altug (; born 1978) is a Turkish physicist and professor in the Bioengineering Department and head of the Bio-nanophotonic Systems laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. Her research focuses on ...

*2013 Andrea Alù *2014 Alexander Szameit *2015 Jeremy N. Munday *2016 Jennifer Dionne *2017 Dirk Robert Englund *2018 Andrei Faraon *2019 Laura Na Liu *2020 Chaoyang Lu *2021 Laura Waller *2022 *2023 William Renninger *2024 Deep Jariwala *2025 Peter McMahon Source:

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Medal winners

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