Max Born Award

The Max Born Award is given by Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) for "outstanding contributions to physical optics" and is named after Max Born.

Recipients
Source: The Optical Society


 * 2024 Andrea Alu
 * 2023 Marin Soljačić
 * 2022 Yuri Kivshar
 * 2021 Anne L'Huillier
 * 2020 Nader Engheta
 * 2019 Govind P. Agrawal
 * 2018 Demetrios N. Christodoulides
 * 2017 Miles J. Padgett
 * 2016 Xiang Zhang
 * 2015 John D. Joannopoulos
 * 2014 Costas Soukoulis
 * 2013 Yaron Silberberg
 * 2012 Jean Dalibard
 * 2011 Carlton M. Caves
 * 2010 Vladimir M. Shalaev
 * 2009 Mordechai Segev
 * 2008 Peter W. Milonni
 * 2007 Luigi Lugiato
 * 2006 Richart Elliott Slusher
 * 2005 Alexander E. Kaplan
 * 2004 David E. Pritchard
 * 2003 Howard Carmichael
 * 2002 John L. Hall
 * 2001 Bernard Yurke
 * 2000 Jagdeep Shah
 * 1999 Alain Aspect
 * 1998 Peter Zoller
 * 1997 Boris Zeldovich
 * 1996 H. Jeffrey Kimble
 * 1995 F. Tito Arecchi
 * 1994 Valerian I. Tatarskii
 * 1992 Rodney Loudon
 * 1991 James P. Gordon
 * 1990 Samuel L. McCall
 * 1989 Dietrich Marcuse
 * 1988 Girish Saran Agarwal
 * 1987 Emil Wolf
 * 1986 Herch Moysés Nussenzveig
 * 1985 Roy J. Glauber
 * 1984 Adolf W. Lohmann
 * 1983 Joseph W. Goodman
 * 1982 Leonard Mandel