Joe Eberly - President of the Optical Society of America
In 2004, the Optical Society of America (OSA) elected Joseph Eberly, Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester and Director of the Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering, as its 2005 Vice President. By accepting the vice presidency, Eberly made a three-year commitment to OSA's board of directors. As vice president, Eberly automatically became President-Elect in 2006 and then President in 2007.
Seventeen of the past seventy-one OSA Presidents have been University of Rochester Faculty or Alumni.
 OSA President 1930-1931: Lloyd A. Jones, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1929-1943) |
 OSA President 1933-1934: Wilbur B. Rayton, Professor of Optics University of Rochester (1929-1931) |
 OSA President 1947-1948: Rudolf Kingslake, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1929-2003)
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 OSA President 1951-1952: Brian O'Brien, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1930-1955) |
 OSA President 1962: David L. MacAdam, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester |
 OSA President 1970: W. Lewis Hyde, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1963-1968) |
 OSA President 1973: Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1943-) UR Optics Alumnus MS 1939, PhD 1954 (OSA Fraunhofer Award 1983) |
 OSA President 1974: F. Dow Smith, PhD, Optics, University of Rochester 1951 (left) |
 OSA President 1978: Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Physics and Optics, University of Rochester (1954-)
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 OSA President 1982: Robert P. Madden, BS, Physics, University of Rochester (1950) |
 OSA President 1985: Robert R. Shannon BS, Optics, University of Rochester (1954)
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 OSA President 1987: Robert G. Greenler, BS, Physics, University of Rochester 1951 |
 OSA President 1996: Duncan T. Moore, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1974-) UR Optics Alumnus MS 1970, PhD 1974 (Also OSA Leadership Award 2001) |
 OSA President 2003: G. Michael Morris, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1980-2002) |
 OSA President 2004: Peter Knight Imperial College (Research Assoc., Dept. Physics), University of Rochester ( 1972-1944) |
 OSA President 2006: Susan Houde-Walter, Professor of Optics, University of Rochester |
OSA President 2007: Joseph H. Eberly, Carnegie Professor of Physics and Optics, University of Rochester (1967-) |
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