Stephen Dorenda

Background

Dorenda,, Stephen was born on November 29, 1936 in Mahony City, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Stephen and Agnes C. (Gdovic) Dorenda.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Pittsburgh, 1958. Graduate, Naval Intelligence School, 1961. Postgraduate, United States Naval Air Academy.

Postgraduate, University North Carolina, Wilmington.

Career

Commissioned Second lieutenant United States Marine Corps, 1958. Advanced through grades to major, 1969. Fighter pilot, since 1960.

Assigned to Mercury Program, 1962. Served in Vietnam, 1969. Retired, 1978

President Rock Mechanics, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1978—1980.

Operations manager National Lime & Stone Company, Findlay, Ohio, since 1980.

Achievements

• 1973 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award (American Society for Engineering )
  
  1978 David Sarnoff Award (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  
  1984 Davies Medal for Engineering Achievement (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  
  1985 Charles Hard Townes Award (Optical Society of America)
  
  1991 Einstein Prize for Laser Science (International Conference on Lasers and Applications)
  
  1992 Optical Society of America (Stanford Chapter) Teaching Award
  
  1994 Quantum Electronics Award (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  
  1999 Frederic Ives Medal (highest award of the Optical Society of America)
  
  2002 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (American Physical Society)
  
  2007 Harvey Prize (Awarded by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
  
  1968 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
  
  1972 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  
  1975 Fellow of American Physical Society
  
  1976 Guggenheim Fellowship
  
  1977 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
  
  1981 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  
  1988 Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Professor of Engineering Endowed Chair (Stanford University)
  
  1994 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
  1995 Elected to Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
  2005 Stephen E. Harris Endowed Professorship in Quantum Optics (Texas A&M University).

Connections

Married Mary Anthia Lamb, March 12, 1960. 1 child Carolynn Renee.

Father:

Stephen Dorenda

Mother:

Agnes C. (Gdovic) Dorenda

Spouse:

Mary Anthia Lamb

child:

Carolynn Renee Dorenda,