Leonard M. Adleman
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Quantum Electronics award 1980), American Optical Society (Ives medal 1986, Esther Beller medal 1998), American Academy Arts and Sciences, member National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Physical Society.
Background
Yariv, Amnon was born on April 13, 1930 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Arrived in the United States, 1951, naturalized, 1964. Son of Shraga and Henya (Davidson) Yariv.
Education
Career
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Member technical staff Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1959-1963. Director laser research Watkins-Johnson Company, 1963-1964. Member faculty California Institute of Technology, since 1964, Martin Summerfield professor applied physics, since 1966.
Co-founder Xponent, Orbits Corporation, Teleris Corporation, Incorporated. With Israeli Army, 1948-1950.
Works
- Quantum Electronics
- This Third Edition of the popular text, while retaining nearly all the material of the previous edition, incorporates material on important new developments in lasers and quantum electronics.
