{"id":42503,"date":"2016-02-01T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=42503"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:06:12","slug":"uh-manoa-professor-john-madey-receives-willis-e-lamb-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uh-manoa-professor-john-madey-receives-willis-e-lamb-award\/","title":{"rendered":"东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Professor John Madey receives Willis E. Lamb Award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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John Madey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Madey<\/strong><\/a>, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at\u00a0Mānoa<\/a>,\u00a0has received the prestigious 2016 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Madey is best known for his invention and implementation of the free electron laser (FEL<\/abbr>). A FEL<\/abbr> device can produce very high intensity and high quality coherent electromagnetic radiation that is also tunable over a wide range of frequency. Madey operates an FEL<\/abbr> that he designed and built at Watanabe Hall on the\u00a0东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa campus.<\/p>\n

The Hawaiʻi<\/span> FEL<\/abbr> operates in the infrared frequency region and is used for student training and the further development of FEL<\/abbr> technology and its applications. Madey’s discovery paved the way for the giant X-ray FEL<\/abbr>’s that operate at SLAC<\/abbr> in Stanford, California, SPRING-8 in Harima Science City, Japan and DESY<\/abbr> in Hamburg, Germany. These three $0.5 billion class machines started operation in the last few years and are enabling important discoveries in chemistry, solid-state physics, biology\u00a0and medicine.<\/p>\n

Madey has received numerous awards and international recognition, including the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute<\/a> in 1989 and, more recently,\u00a0the 2012 Robert R. Wilson Prize from the American Physical Society. He\u00a0was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Nobel Symposium on Free Electron Lasers<\/a> in Sigtuna, Sweden.<\/p>\n

Madey holds 13 patents on FEL<\/abbr> related technological inventions. He\u00a0conducts research, teaches graduate level physics courses and mentors students and postdocs at 东精影业<\/abbr> Mānoa.<\/p>\n

More on the Willis E. Lamb Award<\/h2>\n

The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the field.<\/p>\n

The award honors Willis E. Lamb, Jr., renowed laser scientist and 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics.<\/p>\n

—A Department of Physics and Astronomy news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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