14 Facts About Sajeev John

Sajeev John, OC, FRSC was born on 1957 and is a Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair holder.

Sajeev John is known for his discovery of photonic crystals.

Sajeev John received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.

Sajeev John was a laboratory consultant to Bell Communications Research in 1989.

Sajeev John has been a Principal Investigator for Photonics Research Ontario and is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Sajeev John is the first ever winner of Canada's Platinum Medal for Science and Medicine in 2002.

In 2011, Sajeev John was selected as a Thomson-Reuters Citation Laureate.

Sajeev John was awarded the Killam Prize in Natural Sciences for 2014 by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Dr Sajeev John received the 1996 Herzberg Medal for Physics and the 2007 Brockhouse Medal for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists.

Sajeev John received the first ever McLean Fellowship from the University of Toronto in 1996, the 1997 Steacie Prize in Science and Engineering from the National Research Council of Canada, and the 2004 Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Sajeev John is the first ever winner of Brockhouse Canada Prize in 2004, which he shared with materials chemist Geoffrey Ozin for their groundbreaking interdisciplinary work on photonic band gap materials synthesis.

Professor Sajeev John has received the Killam Fellowship of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, and the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award.

Sajeev John is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the Max Planck Society of Germany.

Sajeev John was the 2011 Elizabeth R Laird Lecturer at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.