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SPIE Technology Achievement Award

The SPIE Technology Achievement Award is given annually to recognize outstanding technical accomplishment in optics, electro-optics, photonic engineering, or imaging. The recipient(s) shall have contributed significantly to the advancement of one or more of these areas with specific demonstration(s) or application(s). Honorarium $2,000.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), of the Australian Center for Precision Optics, Linfield, Australia, is the 2012 recipient of the Technology Achievement award in recognition of the CSIRO ACPO team’s world-leading expertise in optical fabrication, metrology and coating, which has contributed to science and technology in many international projects over more than thirty years.

Team Members include:
Dr. Bob Oreb (Chief Operating Officer)
Dr. Roger Netterfield (Chief Scientist)
Mr. Achim Leistner (Master Optician)
Mr. Jeff Seckold (Master Optician)
Dr. David Farrant (Principal Research Scientist - Optical Metrology)
Dr. Jan Burke (Senior Research Scientist - Optical Metrology)
Ms. Katie Green (Fabrication and Materials Manager)
Dr. Mark Gross (Senior Research Scientist - Optical Coatings)
Dr. Svetlana Dligatch (Senior Research Scientist - Optical Coatings)
Dr. Anatoli Chtanov (Electronics and Instrumentation Engineer)
Mr. Philip Fairman (Electronics and Software Engineer)
Ms. Edita Puhanic (Senior Optician)
Mr. Matthias Burger (Senior Optician)
Mr. Wayne Stuart (Optician)
Mr. Ron Bulla (Optician)
Mr. Terry Kinder (Mechanical & Instrumentation Engineer)
Mr. Neil Blenman (Mechanical & Instrumentation Engineer)
Ms. Khuen Wong (Project Secretary)

Previous Recipients of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award

2011 - James J. Coleman
2010 - Akhlesh Lakhtakia
2009 - James G. Grote
2008 - Bahram Javidi
2007 - Ali Adibi
2006 - Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye
2005 - Sanjit K. Mitra
2004 - Ivan Bozovic
2002 - Institute for Roentgen Optics (IRO)
2001 - Kenneth E. Moore
2000 - Pallab Bhattacharya, Augusto L. Gutierrez-Aitken and Kao-Chih Syao
1999 - Tatsuo Harada
1998 - Narendra Ahuja
1997 - Jean-Pierre Laude
1996 - State Scientific Centre of Russian Federation RD&P Centre "Orion"
1995 - Paul Scherrer Institute Zurich, K. Knop, M.T. Gale, R. Morf
1994 - Richard B. Dyott, Andrews Corporation
1993 - David L. Fried, Optical Sciences Company; Robert Q. Fugate,
          Air Force Phillips Laboratory; Richard Hutchin, Optical Physics
          Consulting; Charles A. Primmerman, Massachusetts Institute of
          Technology
1992 - Vincent J. Tekippe, Gould, Inc.
1991 - U. S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Relay Mirror Program Office, Ball 
          Aerospace Systems, and Applied Technology Associates, Inc.
1990 - Honeywell Corporation
1989 - The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
1988 - The WYKO Corporation
1987 - The Optical Group of the Basic Research Laboratory of Balzers AG 
          Liechtenstein
1986 - The Perkin-Elmer Corp.
1985 - Eastman Kodak Company
1984 - Darryl E. Gustafson and Thomas I. Harris, Optical Research Associates
1983 - Harold E. Bennett and Jean M. Bennett, Michelson Laboratory, Naval
          Weapons Center
1982 - Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.
1981 - Tatsuo Izawa, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph; Donald B. Keck, Peter 
          C.Schultz, Corning Glass Works; John B. MacChesney, Bell
          Laboratories
1980 - James B. Bryan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Philip
          Steger, Oak RidgeY-12 Facility; Theodore T. Saito, U. S. Air Force
          Academy
1979 - Charles DeVoe, Corning Glass Works; Clarence Babcock, Owens
          Illinois