Amnon
Yariv
Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
2009
Engineering
For foundational contributions to photonics and quantum electronics, including his demonstration of the semiconductor distributed feedback laser that underpins today?s high-speed optical fiber communications.
Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.