Federico Capasso

Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso
Born	1949; Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian, American (since 1992)
Alma mater	University of Rome
Known for	Quantum cascade laser; band gap engineering; repulsive Casimir forces; Wavefront engineering using plasmonics
Awards	IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1993); Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1993); John Price Wetherill Medal (1997); Rank Prize for Optoelectronics (1998); R. W. Wood Prize (2001); Duddell Medal and Prize (2002); Arthur L- Schawlow Prize (2004); Edison Medal (2004); King Faisal Prize (2004); Tomassoni award (2004); Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2010); SPIE Gold Medal (2013) ; Balzan Prize (2016) ; Enrico Fermi Prize (2018) ; Matteucci Medal (2019); Frederic Ives Medal (2019)
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied physics
Institutions	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni; Bell Laboratories; Harvard University

Federico Capasso (born 1949) is an applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories.^[1] He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University.

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Federico Capasso
Born	1949 Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian, American (since 1992)
Alma mater	University of Rome
Known for	Quantum cascade laser; band gap engineering; repulsive Casimir forces; Wavefront engineering using plasmonics
Awards	IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1993) Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1993) John Price Wetherill Medal (1997) Rank Prize for Optoelectronics (1998) R. W. Wood Prize (2001) Duddell Medal and Prize (2002) Arthur L- Schawlow Prize (2004) Edison Medal (2004) King Faisal Prize (2004) Tomassoni award (2004) Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2010) SPIE Gold Medal (2013) Balzan Prize (2016) Enrico Fermi Prize (2018) Matteucci Medal (2019) Frederic Ives Medal (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Applied physics
Institutions	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Bell Laboratories Harvard University