John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934)
is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate
in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize
in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy
Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.
== Biography ==
Born in Denver, Colorado, Hall holds three
degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology,
a B.S. in 1956, an M.S. in 1958, and a Ph.D.
in 1961. He completed his postdoctoral studies
at the Department of Commerce's National Bureau
of Standards, now the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), where he
remained from 1962 until his retirement in
2004. He has lectured at the University of
Colorado Boulder since 1967.Hall is currently
a NIST Senior Fellow, Emeritus and remains
a Fellow at JILA, formerly the Joint Institute
for Laboratory Astrophysics, and Lecturer
at the CU-Boulder Physics Department. JILA
is a research institute managed jointly by
CU-Boulder and NIST.
Hall shared half of the Nobel prize with Theodor
W. Hänsch for their pioneering work on laser-based
precision spectroscopy and the optical frequency
comb technique. The other half of the prize
was awarded to Roy J. Glauber.
Hall has received many other honors for his
pioneering work, including the Optical Society
of America's Max Born Award "for pioneering
the field of stable lasers, including their
applications in fundamental physics and, most
recently, in the stabilization of femtosecond
lasers to provide dramatic advances in optical
frequency metrology".
In 2015, Hall signed the Mainau Declaration
2015 on Climate Change on the final day of
the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The
declaration was signed by a total of 76 Nobel
Laureates and handed to then-President of
the French Republic, François Hollande, as
part of the successful COP21 climate summit
in Paris.
== Honours and awards ==
National Carbon Company Fellow in Physics,
1957–1961
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1969
Samuel W. Stratton Award, 1971
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1974 (group
awards)
IR-100: Laser stabilizer selected as one of
"100 best new products of the year," 1975
IR-100: Laser wavelength meter ("Lambdameter")
selected as one of "100 best new products
of the year," 1977
E. U. Condon Award, 1979
Charles Hard Townes Award of the Optical Society
of America, 1984, jointly with V. P. Chebotayev
(Academy of Sciences, USSR)
Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical
Society, 1988
Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Universite Paris
Nord, 1989
Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society
of America, 1991
Einstein Prize for Laser Science, 1992
Arthur L. Shawlow Prize of the American Physical
Society, 1993
Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award,
2000
Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America,
2002
Presidential Rank Award from the Office of
Personnel Management, 2002
Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 2002 (group
awards)
Rabi Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,
and Frequency Control Society, 2004
Légion d'Honneur Membership, 2004
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2005
Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University
of Glasgow, 2007
== References ==
== External links ==
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
CV and publication list
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)
JILA
U.S. Patent 6201638 Comb generating optical
cavity that includes an optical amplifier
and an optical modulator (John Lewis Hall)
Hall's website
Group photograph taken at Lasers '92 including,
right to left, Marlan Scully, Willis Lamb,
John L. Hall, and F. J. Duarte.
