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SPIE Gold Medal

highest honor of the International Society for Optics and Photonics

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9 memorial pages of recipients of the SPIE Gold Medal

Portrait of Charles K. Kao (1933–2018) – memorial page

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Charles K. Kao

11/04/1933 – 09/23/2018

84 years

Hong Kong-British-American physicist

Portrait of Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015) – memorial page

Memorial

Charles Hard Townes

07/28/1915 – 01/27/2015

99 years

20th-century American physicist

Memorial

H. John Caulfield

03/25/1936 – 01/31/2012

75 years

Portrait of Aden Meinel (1922–2011) – memorial page

Memorial

Aden Meinel

11/25/1922 – 10/03/2011

88 years

Memorial

Warren J. Smith

08/17/1922 – 06/19/2008

85 years

Portrait of Emmett Leith (1927–2005) – memorial page

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Emmett Leith

03/12/1927 – 12/23/2005

78 years

Portrait of James G. Baker (1914–2005) – memorial page

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James G. Baker

11/11/1914 – 06/29/2005

90 years

Memorial

Jerzy Nomarski

06/01/1919 – 02/17/1997

77 years

Memorial

Harold Edgerton

04/06/1903 – 01/04/1990

86 years