Amnon yariv biography of barack obama
President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 15, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today named ten eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and three individuals and one team as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. The recipients will receive their awards at a White House ceremony later this year.
“The extraordinary accomplishments of these scientists, engineers, and inventors are a testament to American industry and ingenuity,” President Obama said. “Their achievements have redrawn the frontiers of human knowledge while enhancing American prosperity, and it is my tremendous pleasure to honor them for their important contributions.”
The National Medal of Science was created by statute in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, the Medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. Nominees are selected by a committee of Presidential appointees based on their extraordinary knowledge in, and contributions to, the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences, as well as chemistry, engineering, computing, and mathematics.
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is an outgrowth of a 1980 statute and is administered for the White House by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The award recognizes those who have made lasting contributions to America’s competitiveness and quality of life and have helped strengthen the Nation’s technological workforce. Nominees are selected by a distinguished independent committee represe
Amnon Yariv, Electrical Engineer, Quantum Mechanic, and Pioneer of Optical Communications
DAVID ZIERLER: This is David Zierler, Director of the Caltech Heritage Project. It is Monday, October 25, 2021. It's my great pleasure to be here Professor Amnon Yariv. Amnon, thank you so much for welcoming me into your office.
AMNON YARIV: My pleasure.
ZIERLER: To start, just to orient our readers, I'd like to point researchers to two previous oral histories with Amnon. The first was with Joan Bromberg, located here at Caltech. This interview day took place on January 28, 1985. And in this interview, you started with your Berkeley years and brought it right up until that present, 1985. The other oral history you did was with Shirley Cohen, also here at Caltech. That one was more of a full-life oral history, where you talked about your family background and your childhood, and you took that right up to the present at that time, which was 1999. So our first effort today, circa October 2021, is to fill in the years from 1999 all the way to our present, 2021.
Amnon, perhaps to start, let's bring it back to the year 1999, the year 2000. You left off with Shirley Cohen talking about all of the work that you had done with your Japanese colleagues, and you mentioned also a certain pendulum shift in terms of Japanese students staying in Japan versus them coming here. Let's start with that. After 1999, in terms of the education and the best research in the fields that were important to you, were the Japanese staying at home, or were they coming here to the United States?
YARIV: The Japanese stayed at home because Japan, at that point, had advanced in my area, both economically and technologically to the point where Japanese students could get first-rate education in Japan, probably most notably at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and maybe the University of Osaka. There were good universities, and the source of the students w 18 October 2017 Wineland and Yariv receive recognition in the most distinguished OSA Member category for their unique, influential contributions to the field of optics Israeli-American professor Not to be confused with Aharon Yariv. Amnon Yariv (born April 13, 1930) is an Israeli-American professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at Caltech, known for innovations in optoelectronics. Yariv obtained his B.S., M.S. and PhD. in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1954, 1956 and 1958, respectively. In 2010, Yariv was selected as a winner of the National Medal of Science for "scientific and engineering contributions to photonics and quantum electronics that have profoundly impacted lightwave communications and the field of optics as a whole". He has also been selected to receive the IEEE Photonics Award for 2011. Yariv has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1991. In 1985 he was awarded the Harold Pender Award by the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he was awarded the Harvey Prize by the Technion in Haifa, Israel, for "pioneering contributions to opto-electronics, wave propagation in crystals and nonlinear and phase-conjugate optics, and his demonstration of semiconductor-based integrated optics technology leading to the development of high-speed and stable solid-state lasers". His work has also been recognized by the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow, and has received the Frederic Ives Medal and Esther Hoffman Beller Medal. In 2017, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Society. Yariv has authored several texts on optical electronics and photonics. He has said that the highlight of his group's work was the invention of the semiconductor distributed feedback laser, a device widely used in the Internet's fiber-optic communications. Amnon Yariv currently resides in Pasadena, California. He is married to Frances Yariv. He has three daughters: Danielle Yariv, Dana Yariv and Gabriela (Gavi) Ya David J. Wineland and Amnon Yariv Named 2017 Honorary Members of The Optical Society
David J. Wineland and Amnon Yariv Named 2017 Honorary Members of The Optical Society
18 October 2017
David J. Wineland and Amnon Yariv Named 2017 Honorary Members of The Optical Society
WASHINGTON—The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to name the recently elected, 2017 Honorary Members. The recipients are David Jeffrey Wineland, 2012 Physics Nobel Laureate, University of Oregon, USA, and Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), USA. The 2017 Honorary Members were approved unanimously by the OSA Board of Directors. Honorary Membershipis the most distinguished of all OSA Member categories and is awarded to individuals who have made unique, seminal contributions to the field of optics.
David J. Winelandwas elected for pioneering advances in laser cooling of ions together with unprecedented control of individual ions in foundational experiments of quantum optics and quantum information. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling trapped ions and using ions for quantum computing operations.
Wineland was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and his master's and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University. He completed his PhD in 1970, he then performed Postdoctoral Research in Hans Dehmelt's group at the University of Washington where he investigated electrons in ion traps. In 1975, he join the National Bureau of Standards (NIST), where he started the ion storage group. Wineland was the first to laser cool ions in 1978. In 1995 he created the first single atom quantum logic gate and was the first to quantum telepor Amnon Yariv
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