Wolfgang Kaiser#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 502 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Wolfgang Kaiser passed away October 20, 2023.
Positions Held
- 1993 Professor Emeritus
- 1964 Professor of Experimental Physics at the Technical University of Munich
- 1957 - 1964 Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill
- 1954 US Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories in Fort Monmouth
Fields of Scholarship
- Laser physics
- Laser spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1994 Stern-Gerlach Award of the German Physical Society (DPG)
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Academia Europaea
- Multi-disciplinary honorary doctor (including Purdue University, 1993)
- 1986 Lippincott Prize of the Optical Society of America
- 1982 Max Born Award of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the English Institute of Physics
- 1972 Fellow of the American Physical Society
