Texas A&M quantum physics professor named Townes Medal winner

Girish Agarwal, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been selected by Optica members as the 2022 recipient of the Charles Hard Townes Medal.

Girish Agarwal , professor

Optica, founded in 1916, is a leading society in optics and photonics.

Agarwal will receive the Charles Hard Townes Medal at Optica’s annual conference in October.

“I am honored and humbled to receive this award,” he said. “It is a matter of great pride for me to be named a Charles Townes Medal recipient.”

Contributions worthy of a Townes Medal

The medal honors Charles Hard Townes, whose pioneering contributions to lasers and masers led to the development of the field of quantum electronics and won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964. Charles Townes’s students and colleagues as well as Bell Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard and The Perkin Fund endowed the Townes Medal.

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