The John Tyndall Award is given to the "individual who has made pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to

fiber optics An optical fiber, or optical fibre in Commonwealth English, is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Optical fibers are used most often as a means to ...

technology". The award is named after

John Tyndall John Tyndall FRS (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the p ...

(1820-1893), who demonstrated for the first time

internal reflection Total internal reflection (TIR) is the optical phenomenon in which waves arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely reflected b ...

. This award is sponsored and presented by both the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly called ''IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society'') and

The Optical Society Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...

(OSA). Recipients of this award will receive a special crystal

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

that represents the concept of

total internal reflection Total internal reflection (TIR) is the optical phenomenon in which waves arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely reflected b ...

(endowed by

Corning, Inc. Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The co ...

), a

scroll A scroll (from the Old French ''escroe'' or ''escroue''), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing. Structure A scroll is usually partitioned into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus ...

, and an honorarium.

Recipients

Following people received the John Tyndall Award: * 2023 Ming-Jun Li * 2022 Meint Smit * 2021

Michal Lipson Michal Lipson (born 1970) is an American physicist known for her work on silicon photonics. A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2019, Lipson was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow for contributions to silicon photonics especially towa ...

* 2020: Roel Baets * 2019: Kim Roberts * 2018: Peter J. Winzer * 2017: * 2016: Alan H. Gnauck * 2015: * 2014: Kazuro Kikuchi * 2013: James J. Coleman * 2012:

John E. Bowers John E. Bowers is an American physicist, engineer, researcher and educator. He is the FreKavliChair in Nanotechnology, the director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a distinguished professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer ...

* 2011: David F. Welch * 2010: C. Randy Giles * 2009: Joe C. Campbell * 2008: Robert W. Tkach * 2007:

Emmanuel Desurvire Emmanuel Desurvire (born 1955) is a French researcher and writer. He is the recipient of 2007 John Tyndall Award. Early life Desurvire was born in 1955, in Boulogne, France to Raymond Desurvire, an aircraft engineer and Marcelle Desurvire, a psyc ...

* 2006: * 2005: * 2004: Larry A. Coldren * 2003: Andrew Chraplyvy * 2002: Neal S. Bergano * 2001: Tatsuo Izawa * 2000: Stewart Personick * 1999: John B. MacChesney * 1998: * 1997: * 1996: Kenneth O. Hill * 1995: Tingye Li * 1994: * 1993:

Yasuharu Suematsu (born 1932) is a researcher and educator in optical communication technology. His research has included the development of Dynamic Single Mode Semiconductor Lasers for actuation and the development of high-capacity, long-distance optical fiber c ...

* 1992: Donald B. Keck * 1991: David N. Payne * 1990: Thomas G. Giallorenzi * 1989:

Stewart E. Miller Stewart E. Miller (September 1, 1918 – February 27, 1990) was a noted American pioneer in microwave and optical communications. Miller was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attended high school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and three years at the Univers ...

* 1988: Michael K. Barnoski * 1987:

Robert D. Maurer Robert D. Maurer (born July 20, 1924) is an American industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber. In 1979, Maurer was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the technolog ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tyndall Award Engineering awards

John Tyndall Award The John Tyndall Award is given to the "individual who has made pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology". The award is named after John Tyndall (1820-1893), who demonstrated fo ...

Awards of Optica (society)

Recipients

See also

References