Max Born Award of the Optical Society of the America –

To Technion’s Prof. Moti Segev

The Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA) has been awarded to Prof. Moti Segev of the Technion’s Faculty of Physics for “his groundbreaking contributions in the field of optical spatial solitons.” (A soliton is a wave packet that behaves like a particle).

The award, which is named for Max Born who received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his distinguished contributions to physics in general and optics in particular, is presented by the OSA for outstanding contributions to physical, theoretical or experimental optics. The award was established in 1982, the centenary of Born’s birth.

The Max Born Award is considered the OSA’s highest professional award. In 2007, Prof. Segev won the most important award in Europe in the field of optics – the EPS Quantum Electronics Prize. In 2008, he won the Landau Prize. Winning the two most prestigious prizes in Europe and the US in the field of optics attests to the leadership of the Technion in particular and Israel in general in this field.

Pictured: Prof. Moti Segev