Competition Results

2011 Winners

Subcommittee: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation

Fiona Kenny, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Subcommittee: Optical Sciences

Alexander Buck, Max-Planck-Institute für Quantenoptik, Germany

Subcommittee: Optics in Information Science

Lei Tian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Subcommittee: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Ria Becker, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Subcommittee: Integrated Photonics

Arash Joushaghani, University of Toronto, Canada

Subcommittee: Quantum Electronics

Sulvanus Lee, Boston University, USA

Subcommittee: Vision and Color

Thomas Kohlgraf-Owens, University of Central Florida, USA

 

2010 Winners

Subcommittee: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation

Gilad M. Lerman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Subcommittee: Optical Sciences

Ori Katz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Subcommittee: Optics in Biology and Medicine

Thomas E. Matthews, Duke University, USA

Subcommittee: Optics in Information Science

Gregorious Berkhout, Leiden University and cosine Science & Computing BV, Netherlands

Subcommittee: Photonics

Richard C. Smith, University of Rochester, USA

Subcommittee: Quantum Electronics

Hayden J. McGuinness, University of Oregon, USA

Several Wolf Competition finalists at the 2010 OSAF Chairman's Breakfast.      Front row left to right: Aram Zeytunyan, Maysamreza Chamanzar, Tongcang Li; Back row left to right: Brooke Beier, Joris Berkhout, Hayden McGuinness, Christopher Barsi.

 

2009 Winners

Subcommittee: Polarization and Birefringence in Optical Design

Amber Beckley, Univ. of Rochester, USA

Subcommittee: Extreme Light Sources

Daniel Herrmann, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany

Subcommittee: Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy

Neil Terry, Duke Univ., USA

Subcommittee: General Optics in Information Science

Christopher Barsi, Princeton Univ., USA

Subcommittee: Photonics

Volker Sorger, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

Subcommittee: Quantum Electronics

Henrique Pires, Leiden Univ., Netherlands

Subcommittee: Vision and Color

Xin Wei, Indiana Univ., USA

2009 Wolf Prize
Emil Wolf and Charon Duermeijer (Elsevier, The Netherlands) pictured with several competition finalists during the OSAF Chairman's Breakfast.