[5] According to Elizabeth Rogan, OSA CEO, "Jeff has led a revolution in modern physics through his pioneering research in the coherent control of the interactions of light and matter.
[1] Kimble graduated summa cum laude from Abilene Christian University in 1971 and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from University of Rochester, culminating in 1979.
As a graduate student under Mandel, Kimble observed the first photon anti-bunching.
He spent two years as a scientist for the General Motors Research Laboratory until 1979 when he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
[7] Kimble was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[8] the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.