John L. Hall

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John Lewis Hall
NIST
ThesisElectron spin resonance of interstitial hydrogen atoms in calcium-fluoride (1962)
Doctoral studentsJun Ye

John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American

Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy
.

Biography

Born in

National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he remained from 1962 until his retirement in 2004. He has lectured at the University of Colorado Boulder since 1967.[1][2]

Hall is currently a NIST Senior Fellow, emeritus, and remains a Fellow at JILA, formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and lecturer at the CU-Boulder Physics Department. JILA is a research institute managed jointly by CU-Boulder and NIST.

Hall shared half of the Nobel Prize with Theodor W. Hänsch for their pioneering work on laser-based precision spectroscopy and the optical frequency comb technique. The other half of the prize was awarded to Roy J. Glauber.

Hall has received many other honors for his pioneering work, including the

Optical Society of America
's Max Born Award "for pioneering the field of stable lasers, including their applications in fundamental physics and, most recently, in the stabilization of femtosecond lasers to provide dramatic advances in optical frequency metrology".

Hall is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[3]

In 2015, Hall signed the

COP21 climate summit in Paris.[4]

Honours and awards

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.
  • National Carbon Company Fellow in Physics, 1957–1961
  • Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1969
  • Samuel W. Stratton Award, 1971
  • Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1974 (group awards)
  • IR-100: Laser stabilizer selected as one of "100 best new products of the year," 1975
  • IR-100: Laser wavelength meter ("Lambdameter") selected as one of "100 best new products of the year," 1977
  • E. U. Condon Award, 1979
  • Optical Society of America
    , 1984, jointly with V. P. Chebotayev (Academy of Sciences, USSR)
  • Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, 1988
  • Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Universite Paris Nord, 1989
  • Frederic Ives Medal of the
    Optical Society of America
    , 1991
  • Einstein Prize for Laser Science, 1992
  • Arthur L. Shawlow Prize of the American Physical Society, 1993
  • Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award, 2000
  • Optical Society of America, 2002[5]
  • Presidential Rank Award from the Office of Personnel Management, 2002
  • Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 2002 (group awards)
  • Rabi Award of the
    IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, 2004[6]
  • Légion d'Honneur Membership, 2004
  • Nobel Prize in Physics, 2005
  • Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 2006[7]
  • Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Glasgow, 2007

References

  1. ^ "John L. Hall - Biographical". The Official Website of the Nobel Prize. Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ^ Human, Katy (4 October 2005). "Nobel shines again on CU". Denver Post.
  3. ^ "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Mainau Declaration". www.mainaudeclaration.org. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  5. Optical Society
    . Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  6. IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Archived from the original
    on September 6, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
  7. American Academy of Achievement
    .

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