{"id":48007,"date":"2016-07-20T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48007"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:11:15","slug":"in-memoriam-physicist-and-inventor-john-madey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/in-memoriam-physicist-and-inventor-john-madey\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Physicist and inventor John Madey"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_1415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1415\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/madey.jpg\" alt=\"man behind laser equipment\" width=\"300\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/madey.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/madey-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Madey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> community is saddened by news of the passing of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Professor <strong>John Madey<\/strong>. He passed away on July 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>John M.J. Madey joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa in 1998.\u00a0Madey was best known for his invention of the free electron laser. A free electron laser device can produce very high intensity and high quality coherent electromagnetic radiation that is tunable over a wide range of frequency. This makes the free electron laser applicable for research in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Madey had received numerous awards and international recognitions including the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1989, the 2012 Robert R. Wilson Prize from the American Physical Society and the 2016 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/uh-manoa-professor-john-madey-receives-willis-e-lamb-award\/\"><em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Professor John Madey receives Willis E. Lamb Award<\/em><\/a>, February 1, 2016<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/03\/madey-prize\/\"><em>Madey to receive American Physical Society prize<\/em><\/a>, November 3, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Madey was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Nobel Symposium on Free Electron Lasers in Sigtuna, Sweden. He held 13 patents on free electron laser related technological inventions.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Madey&#8217;s career, read his <a href=\"http:\/\/physicstoday.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/PT.3.3436\">obituary in <em>Physics Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Memorial service<\/h2>\n<p>A memorial service to commemorate Madey&#8217;s scientific achievements and his friendship will be held on Wednesday July 27, noon&#8211;3 <abbr title=\"after noon\">p.m.<\/abbr> in the Wailana Room of Jefferson Hall at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/\">East-West Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Madey family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osa.org\/en-us\/foundation\/donate\/current_campaigns\/\">Optical Society of America Scholarship Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> mourns the loss of John M.J. Madey, physics educator and inventor of the free electron laser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[756,545,9],"class_list":["post-48007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-in-memoriam","tag-physics-and-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48007"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90729,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48007\/revisions\/90729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}