"==Honours and awards==*National Carbon Company Fellow in Physics, 1957–1961*Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1969*Samuel W. Stratton Award, 1971*Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1974 (group awards)*IR-100: Laser stabilizer selected as one of “100 best new products of the year,” 1975*IR-100: Laser wavelength meter (“Lambdameter”) selected as one of “100 best new products of the year,” 1977*E. U. Condon Award, 1979*Charles Hard Townes Award of the Optical Society of America, 1984, jointly with V. P. Chebotayev (Academy of Sciences, USSR)*Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, 1988*Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Universite Paris Nord, 1989*Frederic Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America, 1991*Einstein Prize for Laser Science, 1992*Arthur L. Shawlow Prize of the American Physical Society, 1993*Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award, 2000*Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America, 2002*Presidential Rank Award from the Office of Personnel Management, 2002*Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 2002 (group awards)*Rabi Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society, 2004*Légion d’Honneur Membership, 2004*Nobel Prize in Physics, 2005*Doctor of Science, "honoris causa", University of Glasgow, 2007==References====External links==* The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005* CV and publication list* National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)* JILA* U.S. Patent 6201638 Comb generating optical cavity that includes an optical amplifier and an optical modulator (John Lewis Hall)* Hall's website*Group photograph taken at "Lasers" '92 including, right to left, Marlan Scully, Willis Lamb, John L. Hall, and F. J. Duarte.
Od leta 1967 je poučeval na Univerzi Kolorada v Boulderju.