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Meet OSA’s 2014 Fellows
OSA is pleased to announce the 2014 class of Fellows. This distinction was awarded to 71 OSA members for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics. The selection of these candidates was confirmed by the Board of Directors at its meeting in October 2013.
The Society appreciates the efforts of the nominators and of the members of the 2013 Fellow Members Committee who reviewed the 149 nominations eligible for consideration. This year’s committee included Ann Catrina Coleman (chair), Timothy J. Carrig, Kishan Dholakia, Qihuang Gong, Hiromasa Ito, Mary A. Johnson, Walter Margulis, Lenore McMackin, Nirmala Ramanujam, Kevin P. Thompson, Narsingh Bahadur Singh and Xiaocong Larry Yuan.
Nominations for next year are due by 15 June 2014. For more information, contact the OSA Awards Office (awards@osa.org; +1 202.416.1960) or go to www.osa.org.
Our congratulations to these new Fellows, many of whom will be honored at OSA conferences throughout the year.
Andrea Alù
University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
For outstanding contributions to the fields of photonic metamaterials, plasmonic phenomena and devices, cloaking, and scattering suppression.
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