Jan Stenflo, professor emeritus at Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, is the recipient of the G.G. Stokes Award for 2012 that is offered by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

The G. G. Stokes Award is given annually for exceptional contribution to the field of optical polarization. The award may be presented for a specific achievement, development, or invention of significant importance to optical science and society, or may be given for lifetime achievement.

The SPIE award citation for Stenflo is “in recognition of his wide-ranging and fundamental work on both the measurement and theory of polarized radiation, which has revolutionized our understanding of the sun’s magnetic field, the quantity underlying all solar activity”.

We congratulate.

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