MIT Professor Marin Soljačić and four additional MIT alumni — Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato PhD ’87, Turan Erdogan ’87, Harold Metcalf ’62, and Andrew Weiner ’79, SM ’81, ScD ’84 — are among 17 recipients of the 2023 Optica Awards. Optica, formerly known as OSA, announced the awards, which celebrate those in the optics and photonics field who are making significant technical, research, education, business, leadership, and service accomplishments. Soljačić ’96 received the Max Born Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental, “for seminal contributions to the fields…
