Sajeev John

Sajeev John ( b. 1957 ) is a Canadian physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Toronto and Government of Canada Research Chair holder.

Life

He received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1984. His Ph.D. work at Harvard introduced the theory of classical wave localization and partial localization of light in three-dimensional strongly breaking dielectrics. From 1984 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a kind of laboratory consultant at Corporate Research Science Laboratories Exxon Research and engineering of 1985 to 1989.

From 1986 to 1989 he was assistant professor of physics at Princeton University. 1987 while he was at Princeton, he found together with Eli Yablonovitch the concept of a new class of materials, the photonic crystal. The provided a more complete explanation of its original design from 1984 for the localization of light. In 1989, he was with Bell Communications Research, Inc. ( Bellcore, now: Telcordia Technologies) in Red Bank, NJ. In the fall of 1989 he went to the University of Toronto. He was there, a principal investigator for Photonics Research Ontario and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

John was awarded the Killam Fellowship of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship ( USA), the Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award ( Germany ). He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Royal Society of Canada and is an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society ( Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle / Saale).

Awards

  • McLean Fellowship from the University of Toronto 1996 ( first prize winner )
  • Herzberg Medal for Physics in 1996
  • Steacie Prize in Science and Engineering from the National Research Council of Canada 1997
  • King Faisal International Prize in Science in 2001, together with C. N. Yang.
  • Canada's Platinum Medal for Science and Medicine 2002 ( first winner ever)
  • Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004
  • Brockhouse Canada Prize 2004 ( first winner ever) along with Geoff Ozin
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) LEOS International Quantum Electronics Award in 2007 ( for The Invention and development of light -trapping crystals and elucidation of Their properties and applications )
  • Brockhouse Medal for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists 2007
  • C.V. Raman Chair Professorship of the Government of India 2007
  • Quantum Electronics Award 2007
  • IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award 2008
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