Ali Javan

Ali Javan

Infobox_Scientist
name = Ali Javan


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1926|12|26|mf=y
birth_place = Tehran, Iran
death_date =
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nationality = Iranian American
field = Physicist
work_institution = Columbia
Bell Labs
MIT
alma_mater = University of Tehran
Columbia
doctoral_advisor = Charles Townes
doctoral_students =
known_for = Inventing the gas laser
prizes = Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1993)
religion =
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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. [cite book |last=Taylor |first=Nick |title=LASER: The inventor, the Nobel laureate, and the thirty-year patent war |year=2000 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |id=ISBN 0-684-83515-0 |pages=p. 125–128]

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 the most prestigious honor of Optical Society of America, 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)

ee also

* MIT Physics Department
* List of Iranian scholars
* Higher Education in Iran

References

* cite web
url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/inventors.html
publisher=MIT News Office
author=Trafton, Anne
date=2006-02-09
accessdate=2006-11-11
title=Inventors Hall of Fame to Induct Two Professors

External links

* [http://www.farhangsara.com/alijavan.htm Biography]
* [http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/42_folder/42_articles/42_javan.html Ali Javan, Scientists Who Made A Difference: The Gas Laser and Beyond. Azerbaijan International]
* [http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_3_0_induction_javan.asp His profile on National Inventors Hall of Fame website]

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NAME= Javan, Ali
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Iranian-American Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= December 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH= Tehran, Iran
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