2020 OSA Awards and Medals

The OSA has awarded the William F. Meggers Award for recognition of his outstanding work in spectroscopy to Tony F. Heinz

Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA 

For seminal studies of the properties and dynamics of surfaces, interfaces, and nanoscale materials by diverse spectroscopic techniques, including through the development of powerful new methods .

Tony Heinz received a B.S. in physics from Stanford University, USA, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is a professor of applied physics and photon science at Stanford University and the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Previously, he was a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center, USA, and a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Columbia University, USA. He is a Fellow of OSA and served as OSA President in 2012. Heinz has developed a wide range of spectroscopic techniques to examine the properties and dynamics of nanoscale systems. These methods include interface sensitive nonlinear spectroscopy and time-resolved approaches, such as terahertz time-domain techniques. The measurement techniques have been applied to elucidate the electronic, optical and chemical properties of 0-, 1-, and 2-dimensional materials and interfaces.  The research  would not have been possible without the insight and hard work of more than 70 graduate students and postdocs over the years.