Career History (to 2004)

• Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics 
• A.B. and B.S., 1970, University of Rochester 
• Ph.D., 1976, University of California at Berkeley 
• Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, 1976-78 
• Member, Technical Staff, AT&T, 1978-83 
• Head of Quantum Electronic Dept., AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983-87 
• Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1987-2008 
• Morris Loeb Lecturer, 1988 
• Special Visitor to JILA, 1989, 1999 
• Visiting Professor, College de France, 1990
• Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004+ 

Awards (to 2004)

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1987 
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1990 
• Am. Phys. Soc., Broida Prize for Laser Spectroscopy, 1987 
• APS/AAPT Richtmyer Memorial Prize Lecture, 1990 
• Co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science, 1993 
• Am. Phys. Soc., Arthur Schawlow Prize for Laser Science, 1994 
• Opt. Soc. Am., William F. Meggers Award for Spectroscopy, 1994 
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993 
• Member of the Academia Sinica, 1994 
• Science for art Prize and Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1995 
• Guggenhein fellow, 1996 
• Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1997 
• Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1998
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member,1998
• Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology, Foreign member, 1998

Stanford Students and Post-Docs, c.2008: 

• Liang Chen
  
• Edina Sarajlic
• Yunxiang Zhang
• Post-Doc:
  • Chiow Sheng-Wey