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Robert Alfano
American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1941 · age 85
Robert Alfano is an Italian-American experimental physicist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (1982).
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He is a pioneer in the fields of Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy, Ultrafast lasers and optics, tunable lasers, semiconductor materials and devices, optical materials, biophysics, nonlinear optics and photonics; he has also worked extensively in nanotechnology and coherent backscattering. His discovery of the white-light supercontinuum laser is at the root of optical coherence tomography, which is breaking barriers in ophthalmology, cardiology, and oral cancer detection among other applications. He initiated the field known now as optical biopsy.
The same award as Robert
Stephen E. HarrisBoth received Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser ScienceHalina Rubinsztein-DunlopBoth received SPIE Gold MedalJoseph H. EberlyBoth received Charles Hard Townes AwardJames FujimotoBoth received Britton Chance Biomedical Optics AwardDaniel Joseph BradleyBoth received Charles Hard Townes Award
Rebecca R. Richards-KortumBoth received Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award