This award honors Max Born, who made distinguished contributions to physics in general and to optics in particular. The award is presented to a person who has made outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental. It was established in 1982, the centenary of Born's birth, and is endowed by the United Technologies Research Center.

 

  Winners

2004		David E. Pritchard
2003		Howard John Carmichael
2002		John L. Hall
2001		Bernard Yurke
2000		Jagdeep Shah
1999		Alain Aspect
1998		Peter Zoller
1997		Boris Ya. Zel'dovich
1996		1996: H. Jeffrey Kimble- Caltech UR Physics PhD 1978
1995		F. Tito Arecchi
1994		Valerian I. Tatarskii
1992		Rodney Loudon
1991		James P. Gordon
1990		Samuel L. McCall
1989		Dietrich Marcuse
1988		1998: Girish Saran Agarwal  Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India (UR Physics PhD 1969)
1987		1987: Emil Wolf - Wilson Professor of Physics and Optics, University of Rochester ( 1978-)
1986		1986: Herch M. Nussenzveig -University of Rio de Janeiro (Visiting Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy Univ. of Rochester, 1975)
1985		Roy J. Glauber
1984		Adolf W. Lohmann
1983		Joseph W. Goodman
1982		1982: Leonard Mandel-   Dubridge Professor of Physics , University of Rochester ( 1964-2000)