A&S Outstanding Alumnus 1988

 Marlan O. Scully



(BS 1961, Physics)

Scully was born in Casper, Wyoming. After receiving his MS and PhD in Physics from Yale University, he was a physicist with General Electric Company before beginning his teaching career at Yale. Subsequently, he was an assistant and associate professor of physics at MIT, then a professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.

In 1980, he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Now at Texas A&M University, Scully is considered a leading national authority on laser and quantum mechanics.