Attachment_3-_ARO_Noble_Prize_Winner_List.pdf

ARO Nobel Prize Winner list- Jan 2016

1964 Charles H. Townes Lasers

PHYSICS- "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"

1972 John Bardeen Superconductivity

Leon Cooper

J. Robert Schrieffer

PHSYICS - "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"

1973 Leo Esaki Superlattices

PHYSICS- "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"

1973 Brian D. Josephson Josephson Junction

PHSYICS- "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"

1976 W.M. Lipscomb Borane Compounds

CHEMISTRY- "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"

1979 Herbert C. Brown Boron and Phosphorous Compounds

CHEMISTRY- "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"

1981 Arthur Schalow Solid State Laser

N. Bloembergen Non-Linear Optics

PHYSICS- "for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"

1989 Hans Dehmelt lon Trap

PHYSICS - "for the development of the ion trap technique"

1996 Richard Smalley Bucminster Fullerene

Robert F. Curl

CHEMISTRY- "for their discovery of fullerenes"

1998 Daniel Tsui Quantum Fluid

PHYSICS - "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"

2000 Alan Heeger Conductive Polymers

Alan G. MacDiarmind

CHEMISTRY- "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"

2000 Herbert Kraemer Semiconductor Heterostructures

PHYSICS- "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto electronics"

2001 Eric A. Cornell Bose-Einstein Condensation

Wolfgang Ketterle

Carl E. Wieman

PHYSICS- "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"

2004 Linda Buck Olfaction Identification

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE- "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"

2005 Robert H. Grubbs Metathesis Method in Organic Synthesis

CHEMISTRY- "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

2012 David J. Wineland Measuring and Manipulation of Individual Quantum Systems

PHYSICS- "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"