The R. W. Wood Prize is an award endowed by Xerox and given by Optica to an individual that makes an outstanding technical contribution or an invention in the field of optics. The award was established in 1975 in commemoration of Robert W. Wood.
Past winners of the award include Margaret Murnane, Marvin Minsky, Carl Wieman, Gérard Mourou, and Theodore H. Maiman.
Recipients
2026 - Jelena Vučković 2025 - Fiorenzo Omenetto 2024 - Rick Trebino 2023 - Alexandra Boltasseva 2022 - Shanhui Fan 2021 - 2020 - John Michael Dudley 2019 - Jian-Wei Pan 2018 - 2017 - Michal Lipson 2016 - 2015 - Peter J. Nordlander 2015 - Naomi Halas 2014 - 2013 - Milton Feng 2012 - Eric Van Stryland 2012 - 2011 - Demetrios N. Christodoulides 2010 - Henry Kapteyn 2010 - Margaret Murnane 2009 - Paul G. Kwiat 2008 - Andrew M. Weiner 2008 - 2007 - Bahram Jalali 2006 - Alexander Efros 2006 - Aleksey Ekimov 2006 - Louis E. Brus 2005 - Masataka Nakazawa 2004 - Rangaswamy Srinivasan 2004 - James J. Wynne 2004 - Samuel E. Blum 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - Federico Capasso 2000 - Marvin Minsky 2000 - 2000 - 1999 - Eric A. Cornell 1999 - Carl Wieman 1998 - Robert L. Byer 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - Eli Yablonovitch 1995 - Gérard Mourou 1994 - 1993 - 1993 - LeGrand Van Uitert 1992 - Yuri N. Denisyuk 1991 - 1991 - Richard M. Osgood 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1988 - David A. B. Miller 1987 - David E. Aspnes 1986 - 1986 - 1985 - David H. Auston 1984 - Otto Wichterle 1983 - 1982 - Linn F. Mollenauer 1981 - Charles V. Shank 1981 - Erich P. Ippen 1980 - Anthony E. Siegman 1979 - Peter Franken 1978 - Peter P. Sorokin 1977 - Peter Fellgett 1976 - Theodore H. Maiman 1975 - Emmett N. Leith 1975 - Juris Upatnieks
See also List of physics awards
References