John L. Hall (born 1934) is a JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) fellow and Physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics department. He shared (with Theodor W. Hänsch) one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", with the other half shared by Roy J. Glauber. Hall has received several honors for his pioneering work, including the Optical Society of America's Max Born Award "for pioneering the field of stable lasers, including their applications in fundamental physics and, most recently, in the stabilization of femtosecond lasers to provide dramatic advances in optical frequency metrology." 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU or CU–Boulder) is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. ... Theodor W. Hänsch (b. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Roy J. Glauber (born 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. ... The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a research and education organization in the field of optics. ...

John Hall holds three degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a B.S. (1956), a M.S. (1958), and a Ph.D. 1961. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the National Bureau of Standards and then worked there from 1962-1971. He has lectured at Colorado since 1967. The Carnegie Institute of Technology was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. ... As a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) develops and promotes measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. ...

Hall's prize marks the third recieved by JILA scientists. In 2001, both Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman each won one-third of the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates". JILA is one of the nation's leading research institutes in the physical sciences and is jointly operated by the University of Colorado (CU) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ... Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. ...

External links

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
• CV and publication list