Y. R. Shen 沈元壤 Election Year 1990 Dept. of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. Tel: (510) 642-4856
Current Positions
Professor of Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
Education
B.S., National Taiwan University (1956)
M.S., Stanford University (1959)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1963)
Professional Experience
Postdoc, Harvard University (1963-1964)
Assistant Professor, Univ. of California at Berkeley (1964-1967)
Associate Professor, Univ. of California at Berkeley (1967-1970)
Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1970—)
Visiting Professor: Harvard University (1972), Univ. of Paris, Orsay, France (1973), Max-Planck-Inst of Quantenoptik (1987), Tech. University of Vienna (1990)
Specialties
Applied Physical Sciences
Awards and Honors
Sloan Fellow (1966-1968)
Guggenheim Fellow (1972-1973)
Achievement Award, Chinese Eng & Sci Assoc. of S. Calif. (1983)
Humboldt Award, A. Von Humboldt Foundation (1984)
C. H. Townes Award, Optical Soc. of America (1986)
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1990)
A. Schawlow Prize, American Physical Society (1992)
Max Planck Research Prize, Max Planck Society (1996)
F. Isakson Prize, American Physical Society (1998)
Elected Members, National Academy of Sciences (1995), American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1990), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)