Physics Professor Jason Ho named Distinguished Scholar
Jason Ho was surprised in his classroom on Tuesday by President Kirwan as he was recognized with the University's Distinguished Scholar Award. Kirwan was joined by Jason's family: his wife, daughters, mother and sister, as well as Department Chair William Saam, College Dean Bob Gold and several other well-wishers. Honorees receive a $20,000 research grant for pursuit of further scholarly activity, an honorarium, and are recognized during the year by the university.
Here's what the University has to say about him: Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho, professor of physics, has taught at Ohio State since 1983 and has a Ph.D. from Cornell University. A world leader in theoretical research on Bose-Einstein Condensation, the condensation of many identical atoms into the same macroscopic quantum state, Ho was elected Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1999 and the American Physical Society in 2000. Revolutionary applications of Ho's BEC research could include tinier electronic circuits, extremely accurate clocks and distance-measuring devices, and use in super-fast quantum computers. Colleagues have praised Ho as "a great teacher and an outstanding mentor" and "a world-class theoretical physicist."
