Ursula Keller receives the highest award of the Optical Society
The Optical Society, the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, awards Prof. Ursula Keller (D-PHYS) its highest honours, the 2020 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, in recognition of her fundamental contributions to ultrafast lasers technology.
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional organization in the wider field of optics and photonics. With the award of their highest honour to Ursula Keller, the Swiss scietist is now the only individual to receive the Society's Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, Charles H. Townes Award and external page Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.
The award recognises Keller's fundamental contributions to ultrafast lasers technology, especially in the development of high peak and average power oscillators and important breakthroughs in attosecond science. “Ursula Keller shines as an extraordinary leader in the optics and photonics community, providing fundamental research pivotal to the development of ultrafast lasers technology,” says OSA President Stephen D. Fantone. “Keller’s many accomplishments have contributed to significant advancements in the field of applied optics.”
(Source: external page OSA news release)
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize
First presented in 1929, the Frederic Ives Medal recognizes overall distinction in optics, and is the highest award of the Optical Society (OSA). The medal was endowed by Herbert E. Ives, a distinguished charter member and 1924–1925 OSA President, to honour his father’s pioneering contributions to colour photography, three-colour process printing, and other branches of applied optics. The Quinn Prize was added in 1995 in recognition of OSA's first Executive Director, Jarus W. Quinn.