2008: John Hall, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics featured speaker of The Eleventh Putcha Venkateswarlu memorial lecture

2008: John Hall, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics

The Eleventh Putcha Venkateswarlu memorial lecture was given by Dr. John L. Hall from University of Colorado, JILA: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO on October 17th 2008. The title of the talk was "The Optical Frequency Comb: A Versatile tool for Science, Metrology, and Medical Diagnostics". Dr Hall shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005 with Theodor W. Hänsch "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique". The prize was also shared with Roy J. Glauber of Harvard University.