Anthony E. Siegman

Edward Anthony Siegman ( born November 23, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan; † 7, 2011 in Stanford, California ) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, known for his contributions to laser physics and optics.

Life

Siegman, born in 1931 in Detroit, studied at Harvard University (Bachelor in 1952 summa cum laude) and the University of California, Los Angeles, where in 1954 his master's degree in Applied Physics made ​​. From 1952 to 1954 he was also at Hughes Aircraft. From 1954 he was an assistant at the Electronics Laboratory at Stanford University. In 1957 he received his doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford. In 1956, he was Assistant Professor at Stanford University and remained there the rest of his career, most recently as McMurty Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1978 to 1983 he was director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford. In 1998, he went into retirement. In 1965 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, 1969/70 as a Guggenheim Fellow at the IBM laboratories in Zurich and in 1984/85 as a Humboldt Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich.

1999/2000 he was president of the Optical Society of America, the RW Wood Prize (1980) and the Frederic Ives Medal ( 1987) he received. In 1989 he received the Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE LEOS and the 1991 Arthur L. Schawlow Award.

Siegman published around 250 scientific articles and three textbooks. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1988 ) and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1973) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Siegman was a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, the Laser Institute of America and the American Physical Society. From 1974 to 1980 he was a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

Among his 40 Ph.D. students counted Stephen E. Harris.

Writings

  • Microwave solid state maser, McGraw Hill 1964
  • An introduction to Masers and lasers, McGraw Hill 1971
  • Lasers, University Science Books 1986
  • IP Kaminow (Editor) Lasers and their Applications, IEEE Press, 1973 ( reprint )
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