Professor James C. Wyant is the founding dean of the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. He was elected president of the OSA and the SPIE, two of the most respected international academic organizations in the world of optics.
An interview with Nobel Laureate Jean Marie Lehn is featured as the first episode of a new interview program launched by the CIOMP and iCANX.
There are a group of special people in this world. They are the ones making extraordinary scientific discoveries. They are the ones leading cutting edge technological developments. They are changing our lives and shaping our future.
To celebrate and highlight UNESCO’s International Day of Light (IDL), a Light IDL Event was held May 15 to 18 in Changchun. It was initiated by the journal Light: Science & Applications, IDL’s golden partner. More than 400 attendees joined the event on site in Changchun and an audience of 15,000 followed the event online.
The "Nobel Prize" is awarded to those who have made "the greatest contribution to human" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology, medicine or literature. It is internationally recognized as the highest honor, and affirms the recipients’ achievement in their fields. Since 1901, about 18 men have won the Nobel Prize for every woman, and only a handful of women have won physics prizes.
Nobel laureate Prof. Donna Strickland was among a group of outstanding women science workers who graced the 2021 Rose in Science event held on International Women’s Day in Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).