page_title: John L. Hall
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: John L. Hall / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: President George W. Bush meets with the 2005 Nobel Prize recipients, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005 in the Oval Office at the White House. From left to right are Dr. John Hall, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Dr. Roy J. Glauber, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Richard R. Schrock and Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. White House photo by Paul Morse
context_page_description: John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy.
context_section_description: 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
  Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 2006
  Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Glasgow, 2007
caption: President George W. Bush meets with the 2005 Nobel Prize recipients. From left to right are Dr. John Hall, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Dr. Roy J. Glauber, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Richard R. Schrock and Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.
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