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Obituaries in 2025

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  • John ‘JJ’ Joannopoulos, a pioneering condensed-matter theorist who contributed to the launch of modern nanophotonics and mentored a plethora of scientists and engineers, passed away on 17 August 2025, aged 78. In his five decades at MIT, JJ combined first-principles insights with a gift for nurturing people, shaping fields from ab initio materials theory to photonic crystals and their applications.

    • Marin Soljačić
    • Shanhui Fan
    • Michelle L. Povinelli
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  • Champion experimentalist of quantum optics and squeezed-light pioneer has sadly passed away.

    • Eugene Polzik
    • Jun Ye
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  • Wilson Sibbett, a highly respected member of the international optics and laser community, left us on the 15th October 2024.

    • James Roy Taylor
    Obituary

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