Hall is currently a NIST Senior Fellow, emeritus, and remains a Fellow atJILA, formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics,[3] and adjoint professor at the CU-Boulder Physics Department.[4] JILA is a research institute managed jointly by CU-Boulder and NIST.
Hall shared half of the Nobel Prize withTheodor W. Hänsch for their pioneering work on laser-based precision spectroscopy and the opticalfrequency comb technique. The other half of the prize was awarded toRoy J. Glauber.[5]
Hall has received many other honors for his pioneering work, including theOptical Society of America's Max Born Award "for pioneering the field of stable lasers, including their applications in fundamental physics and, most recently, in the stabilization of femtosecond lasers to provide dramatic advances in optical frequency metrology".[6]
President George W. Bush meets with the 2005 Nobel Prize recipients. From left to right are Dr. John Hall, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Dr. Roy J. Glauber, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dr. Richard R. Schrock and Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.
National Carbon Company Fellow in Physics, 1957–1961
