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Herwig Kogelnik and Jim West were both named as recipients of the 2006 U.S. National Medal of Technology. This announcement by the White House is in addition to the earlier announcement in June regarding the 2005 medal awards, which included Al Cho, adjunct vice president of Semiconductor Research at Bell Labs. The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor awarded by a U.S. President for technological innovation. This is great news and recognition of the world class innovation that continues at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs today.
Dr. Al Cho is being honored for the invention and commercialization of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), which is now being used by companies around the world to mass produce electronic and optoelectronic devices for cell phones, CDs, and many other products popular today. Dr. Al Cho, who was born in Beijing, China, has earned many awards over his career, including the American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials, the World Materials Congress Award of ASM International, the IEEE Medal of Honor and the Computers & Communications Prize of the C&C Foundation, Japan.
Herwig Kogelnik is an adjunct vice president of Photonics Systems Research at Bell Labs, and is being honored for his pioneering contributions and leadership in the development of lasers, optoelectronics, integrated optics and lightwave communications systems.
Jim West is currently a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, which he joined after a distinguished, 40-year career at Bell Labs.
So far, 10 Bell Labs scientists have won U.S. National Medal of Technology. The 2005 and 2006 winners were honored together at a White House ceremony and followed by a black tie dinner in Washington, D.C., on July 27th, 2007.
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