Ali Javan - Honors

Honors

  • Member of Sigma Xi
  • National Academy of Sciences Fellow
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
  • 1964 - Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute for "conception and development of the first continuous optical laser which utilised Neon and Helium"
  • 1966 - Fanny and John Hertz Foundation Medal
  • 1966 - Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 1975 - Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America
  • 1979 - Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
  • 1993 - Albert Einstein World Award of Science of the World Cultural Council
  • 2006 - Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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