The Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the Optical Society, is a prize for young scientists (within 10 years of their highest degree) for their contributions to optics. It is named after Adolph Lomb, treasurer of the Optical Society of America from its founding until his death in 1942.

Medal winners

1940 David MacAdam 1942 James G. Baker 1944 R. Clark Jones 1946 Wayne G. Norton 1948 David S. Grey 1950 H. Richard Blackwell 1952 Aden B. Meinel 1954 William Sinton 1956 Walter R. J. Brown 1958 Edward L. O'Neill 1960 Ian Mills 1962 Jean-Pierre Barrat 1964 Gordon H. Spencer 1966 C. Kumar Patel 1968 Douglas C. Sinclair 1970 Marlan O. Scully 1972 Robert L. Byer 1974 James Forsyth 1976 Marc D. Levenson 1978 Eli Yablonovitch 1980 David M. Bloom 1982 Won T. Tsang 1984 Edward H. Adelson 1986 David A. B. Miller 1988 Janis A. Valdmanis 1990 Andrew M. Weiner 1992 David F. Welch 1992 Mohammed N. Islam 1993 Henry C. Kapteyn 1994 Robert W. Schoenlein 1995 Turan Erdoğan 1996 Frederick A. Kish Jr. 1997 Ekmel Özbay 1998 Benjamin J. Eggleton 1999 Jun Ye 2000 Mikhail Lukin 2001 Barbara A. Paldus 2002 Susana Marcos Celestino 2003 Alexei Vladimirovich Sokolov 2004 Randy Bartels 2005 Marin Soljacic 2006 John Charles Howell 2007 Shanhui Fan 2008 L. Cary Gunn 2009 Rebekah A. Drezek 2010 Jeremy O'Brien 2011 Elizabeth Hillman 2012 Hatice Altug 2013 Andrea Alù 2014 Alexander Szameit 2015 Jeremy N. Munday 2016 Jennifer Dionne 2017 Dirk Robert Englund 2018 Andrei Faraon 2019 Laura Na Liu 2020 Chaoyang Lu 2021 Laura Waller 2022 2023 William Renninger 2024 Deep Jariwala 2025 Peter McMahon 2026 Sergio Carbajo

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See also List of physics awards

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