NIST Physicist to Receive 2009 William F. Meggers Award from Optical Society of America

Leo Hollberg, a physicist and group leader who recently retired from NIST Boulder, will receive the 2009 William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA).

The award recognizes outstanding work in spectroscopy and is named after a physicist who worked at NIST from 1914 to 1958. Hollberg was cited for his seminal contributions to the development of diode lasers as powerful spectroscopic tools, development of femtosecond frequency combs, and demonstration of unique quantum effects in the interaction between light and atoms.

Hollberg will accept the award in October at the OSA annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. For more, see the OSA press release, “The Optical Society Bestows 17 Awards for 2009.”