Marlan O. Scully
| Marlan O. Scully | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 3, 1939 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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