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Photo of Caltech's Amnon Yariv, a National Medal of Science awardee for contributions in optics.

November 23, 2010

Caltech's Amnon Yariv was awarded the National Medal of Science for vast contributions in optics.

Amnon Yariv of the California Institute of Technology was awarded the National Medal of Science for scientific and engineering contributions to photonics and quantum electronics that have profoundly impacted lightwave communications and the field of optics as a whole. His recent NSF award is enabling him to help bring closer to reality the inevitable merger of optics and electronics, or in material terms, the union of silicon and III-V materials on a platform, critical for nanotechnology device performance for the next generation of information technology.

Credit: Ryan K Morris Photography and the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation.

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