The SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award is presented in recognition of outstanding lifetime contributions to the field of biomedical optics through the development of innovative, high impact technologies. The award particularly honors pioneering contributions to optical methods and devices that have facilitated advancements in biology or medicine. Honorarium $2,000.
Across his illustrious career, biomedical pioneer Britton Chance made critical contributions in the identification of and functioning of enzyme-substrate compounds, as well as in such varied areas as magnetic resonance spectroscopy in humans, the mathematics of the inverse problem, radio-frequency electronics, light transport in highly scattering media, breast-cancer diagnostics, and muscle dynamics. His research transformed the field of biomedical optics, including his efforts to develop spectroscopy as a noninvasive analytical tool for clinical diagnosis. Read more about Britton Chance here.