ORGANIZATION

Founded 1916, present membership about 14,000.

Official Website:
http://www.osa.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ilesanmi Adesida	Educator	c. 1949		Dean, College of Engineering, UIUC
Zhores I. Alferov	Scientist	15-Mar-1930		Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program
Nikolay G. Basov	Physicist	14-Dec-1922	1-Jul-2001	Invention of the maser and laser
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	Physicist	1-Apr-1933		Trapped atoms with laser light
Karl T. Compton	Physicist	15-Sep-1887	22-Jun-1954	Bikini Island atomic tests
Eric A. Cornell	Physicist	19-Dec-1961		Atomic physicist, Nobel laureate
Robert F. Curl, Jr.	Chemist	23-Aug-1933		Co-Discovered first fullerine
Roy J. Glauber	Physicist	1-Sep-1925		Quantum optics
John L. Hall	Physicist	21-Aug-1934		Quantum optics
Theodor W. Hänsch	Physicist	30-Oct-1941		Quantum optics
George Russell Harrison	Physicist	14-Jul-1898	27-Jul-1979	Echelle spectrograph
Haldan K. Hartline	Scientist	22-Dec-1903	17-Mar-1983	Physiology of the retina
Nick Holonyak	Physicist	3-Nov-1928		Light-emitting diodes
Herbert E. Ives	Physicist	21-Jul-1882	13-Nov-1953	Facsimile machine
Kristina M. Johnson	Educator	c. 1958		Provost of Johns Hopkins University
Wolfgang Ketterle	Physicist	21-Oct-1957		Bose-Einstein condensates
John C. Mather	Physicist	7-Aug-1946		Big Bang
William D. Phillips	Physicist	5-Nov-1948		Trapped atoms with laser light
James Rainwater	Physicist	9-Dec-1917	31-May-1986	Determined shapes of nuclei
George Wald	Biologist	18-Nov-1906	12-Apr-1997	Physiology of the retina
Carl E. Wieman	Physicist	26-Mar-1951		Nuclear physicist

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