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Marlan O. Scully

Marlan O. Scully
Born (1939-08-03) August 3, 1939 (age 77)
Casper, Wyoming, United States
Residence United States
Nationality American
Fields Physicist and engineer
Institutions Baylor University
Texas A&M University
Princeton University
Yale University
MIT
University of Arizona
University of New Mexico
Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics
Alma mater Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Casper College
University of Wyoming
Yale University
Doctoral advisor Willis Lamb
Doctoral students (out of over 50)
Dana Z. Anderson
Julio Gea-Banacloche
Weng Chow
Patrick A. Lee
Mikhail Lukin
Wolfgang P. Schleich
Art Smirl
Eric Van Stryland
Known for Quantum optics
laser physics
Notable awards Adolph E. Lomb Medal (1970)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1990)
Charles Hard Townes Award (1998)
Quantum Electronics Award (2003)
Arthur L. Schawlow Prize (2005)
Herbert Walther Award (2011)
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize (2012)

Marlan Orvil Scully (born August 3, 1939) is an American physicist best known for his work in theoretical quantum optics. He is a professor at Texas A&M University and Princeton University. Additionally, in 2012 he developed a lab at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative in Waco, Texas.

He has authored over 700 scientific articles, as well as standard textbooks such as “Laser Physics” (with W. Lamb and M. Sargent) and “Quantum Optics” (with M. S. Zubairy).

Marlan O. Scully was born in Casper, Wyoming where he attended public schools including Casper College, and finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Wyoming and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his PhD under the guidance of Willis Lamb at Yale University in 1965.

After completing his graduate work at Yale University, Scully became an instructor at Yale and then proceeded to become an Assistant Professor at MIT where he received early promotion to Associate Professor and moved to the University of Arizona to become Professor before age 30. While there, he worked with Willis Lamb, Peter Franken, and others to build the Optical Sciences Center there. In 1980, he took a joint position between the Max Planck Institute für Quantenoptik and the University of New Mexico as Distinguished Professor. In the Early `90’s, he moved to Texas A&M where he is now Burgess Distinguished Professor of Physics, holds the TEES Distinguished research chair, and is Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Quantum Studies. In 2003, he was appointed Visiting Professor at Princeton University. In 2005, he accepted a joint professional appointment between Texas A&M and Princeton Universities.


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