American optical engineer
James Clair Wyant was a professor at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona where he was Director (1999–2005)[1] and Dean (2005–2012).[2] He received a B.S. in physics from Case Western Reserve University and M.S. and Ph.D. in optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.[3]
Career
He was a founder of the WYKO Corporation and served as its president and board chairman from 1984 to 1997.[4] He was also a founder of the 4D Technology Corporation and served as its board chairman.[5] Wyant was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of Optica, SPIE (International Society of Optics and Photonics), and the Optical Society of India, an honorary member of the Optical Society of Korea,[6] and former editor-in-chief of the OSA journal Applied Optics.[3] He was the 2010 president of OSA[7] and the 1986 president of SPIE.[8] Since 2010, he had been a member of the Board of Trustees of Case Western Reserve University.[9] In April 2019, the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona was renamed to be the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences in his honor.[10]
Awards
- AccountabilIT Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arizona Technology Council, 2019[11]
- SPIE Visionary Award, 2019[12]
- Optica Joseph Fraunhofer Award[13]
- SPIE Gold Medal, 2003[14]
- SPIE Technology Achievement Award
- SPIE Chandra Vikram Award[15]
- University of Rochester College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award
- Doctorado Honoris Causa from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica in Puebla, Mexico.
- Arizona's “Innovator of the Year” Product Award
- Tom Brown Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award
- University of Arizona Technology Innovation Award;[3]
- Arizona Technology Council William F. McWhortor Award.[16]
- Optica Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize[17]
- Optica Honorary Membership[18]
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