Honorary Membership Award
Recognizing those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to spectroscopy.
Karl Norris
Distinguished Service Award
Recognizing members for their long-time service to the Society.
Michael Carrabba
Emeritus Membership
Recognizing members who have contributed to spectroscopy and have been members of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy for 15 years, and now have retired from active scientific endeavor.
No award for 2011
Lester W. Strock Award
Established by the SAS New England section to recognize an author(s) of an outstanding paper or series of papers.
David Hahn
Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award
Recognizing a graduate student for outstanding research in spectroscopy and presented in honor of our longtime colleague Barbara L. Stull
Rohith Reddy
Graduate Student Award
Recognizing a graduate student for outstanding research in spectroscopy
Rui Liu
Meggers Award
Recognizing the author(s) of an outstanding paper appearing in Applied Spectroscopy
Kent A. Meyer, Kin C. Ng, Zhanjun Gu, Zhengwei Pan, Robert W. Shaw and William B. Whitten
Presented for "Combined Apertureless Near-Field Optical Second-Harmonic Generation/Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Nanoscale Limit of Detection” Applied Spectroscopy 2010, Volume 64, Number 1
Lippincott Award
Given to honor the memory of Ellis R. Lippincott for significant contributions to vibrational spectroscopy. The medal is sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Coblentz Society, and the Optical Society of America.
Isao Noda
William J. Poehlman Award
This award is granted to the Regional Section of the Society which has contributed the most towards accomplishing the goals and ideals of the Society during the preceding year.
Cleveland Regional Section
SAS Fellows Award
Recognizes individual members for their outstanding service to the field of spectroscopy.
- Fran Adar
- David Haaland
- Bernhard Lendl
- E. Neil Lewis
- Ian Lewis
- Isao Noda
- Karl Norris
- Michael Pelletier
- Michel Pezolet
- Don Pivonka
- John Reffner
- Heinz Siesler
- Patrick Treado
For information on how to nominate people for future awards, see our list of awards.



