Ali Javan
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Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان , born December 26, 1926 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett.[1]
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Academic life
He gradutated from Alborz High School, started his university studies at University of Tehran and continued at Columbia University after coming to the United States in 1948. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1954. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an associate professor of physics in 1961 and has been a professor since 1964.
Honours
In 1975, Professor Ali Javan received from the Optical Society of America their most prestigious honor, the Fredric Ives Medal, with a citation that praised him for "producing an optical device (the Gas Laser) of unparalleled applicability to scientific research." In 1993, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
On May 6, 2006, Professor Ali Javan was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, along with another MIT Professor, Robert Langer.
- Stewart Ballentine Medal of the Franklin Institute (1964)
- Fanny and John Hertz Foundation Medal (1966)
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1966)
- Fredric Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America (1975)
- Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (1979 and 1995)
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science of the World Cultural Council (1993)
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006)
