American Physical Society Presents Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science.Business Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2003 Arthur Ashkin Arthur Ashkin is a retired scientist who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He invented the optical tweezers in 1986. He has pioneered the optical trapping process that eventually was used to manipulate atoms, molecules, and biological cells. of Bell Laboratories Receives 2003 Award for Research in Laser Cooling Laser cooling Reducing the thermal motion of atoms with the force exerted by a laser beam. Typically, such cooling is used to reduce the temperature of a gas of atoms, or the velocity spread of atoms in an atomic beam. and Trapping of Atoms and Particles The American Physical Society The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the world's second largest organization of physicists. The Society publishes more than a dozen science journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than twenty science (APS) named Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories as the 2003 winner of the Joseph F. Keithley Award. The award was given for Ashkin's theoretical and experimental contributions to the understanding of laser cooling and trapping of atoms and particles, for demonstrating the optical gradient forces on atoms and the trapping of atoms with light, and for inventing optical tweezers optical tweezers pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A technique that uses a single-beam laser directed through an objective lens to trap, image, and manipulate micron-sized particles in three dimensions. and showing how they can be used to measure the physical forces generated by biological molecular motors. The Keithley Award, established in 1997, presents $5000 annually to a physicist who has been instrumental in the development of measurement techniques or equipment that have an impact on the physics community by providing better measurements. The award honors Joseph F. Keithley, founder of Keithley Instruments Keithley Instruments (NYSE: KEI) is a measurement and instrument company headquartered in Solon, Ohio. Keithley develops, manufactures, markets and sells highly accurate instruments and data acquisition products, as well as complete system solutions for high-volume production , Inc., for his contributions in the area of sensitive and precision instrument development and measurement techniques. Arthur Ashkin was born on September 2, 1922. He received an A.B. in Physics from Columbia College in 1947 and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Cornell University in 1952. He worked at the Columbia Radiation Lab (1942-1945) while in the Army, and at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1952-1991). At Bell Laboratories, he conducted research on microwaves, nonlinear optics, and laser trapping. With colleagues, he made the first observation of CW (continuous wave) laser harmonic generation and CW parametric amplification, discovered the photorefractive effect, and initiated the field of nonlinear optics in optical fibers. He discovered optical trapping of dielectric particles and proposed stable optical trapping of atoms. He made the first observation of optical gradient forces on atoms and the first observation of molasses molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the uncrystallizable sugars as well as some remnant sucrose. and optical trapping of atoms. He was the first to trap biological particles with optical tweezers. His awards and honors include election to the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the Quantum Electronics Award of the Laser and Electro-Optic Society of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. , the Townes Award of the Optical Society of America The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application, by means of worldwide research, scientific publishing, conferences and exhibitions, partnership with industry, and the , the Rank Prize in Opto-Electronics, and the Ives Medal/Quinn Award of the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow of APS, OSA 1. OSA - Open Scripting Architecture. 2. OSA - Open System Architecture. , IEEE, and AAAS AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science. . The award is endowed by Keithley Instruments, Inc. and the Instrument and Measurement Science Topical Group of the APS. It is the only APS award recognizing advances in measurement science. The award's selection process is controlled by APS and is independent of Keithley Instruments. Keithley Instruments' products have long been staples in physics and research labs worldwide. For information about the Joseph F. Keithley Award, contact the Chair of the 2004 Selection Committee: Fred Fickett 3660 Cloverleaf Dr Boulder, CO 80304 Phone (303) 497-3785 Fax (303) 497-5030 Email ffickett@uswest.net About Keithley Instruments. Keithley Instruments, Inc. provides optical and electrical measurement solutions from DC to RF (radio frequency) to the wireless, semiconductor, optoelectronics, and other electronics manufacturing industries. Engineers and scientists around the world use Keithley's advanced hardware and software for process monitoring, production test, and basic research. www.keithley.com |
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