G. G. Stokes Award

The G. G. Stokes Award is given annually for exceptional contribution to the field of optical polarization. The award may be presented for a specific achievement, development, or invention of significant importance to optical science and society, or may be given for lifetime achievement. Honorarium $2,000, sponsored by ITT Industries, Hinds Instruments, Meadowlark Optics, L3 Communications, Polaris Sensor Technologies, and individual contributions from Russell Chipman.

Jan Olof Stenflo, ETH Zurich, Institute of Astronomy, Zurch, Switzerland, is the 2012 recipient of the G.G. Stokes Award in recognition of his wide-ranging and fundamental work on both the measurement and theory of polarized radiation, which has revolutionized our understanding of the sun's magnetic field, the quantity underlying all solar activity.

Previous Recipients of the G. G. Stokes Award

2011 - Johannes Fitzgerald de Boer
2010 - Emil Wolf
2008 - Shin-Tson Wu
2007 - Russell Chipman
2006 - Kazuhiko Oka
2005 - Rasheed M. A. Azzam
2004 - R. Clark Jones