Boris P. Stoicheff

Biography Stoicheff was born in Bitola, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia). His family emigrated to Canada 1931, and he grew up in Toronto. He earned a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1947, and a PhD from the same institution in 1950. He stayed for another year at Toronto on a fellowship, then went to the National Research Council (Canada) in Ottawa to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the spectroscopy laboratory headed by Gerhard Herzberg, where he worked on Raman scattering. and was awarded their William F. Meggers Award in 1981 and their Frederic Ives Medal in 1983. He also received the Henry Marshall Tory Medal, in 1989. Later, OSA awarded him the Distinguished Service Award in 2002.

Tributes Since 2011, the Optical Society of America and the Canadian Association of Physicists sponsors a scholarship in his name that is awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated both research excellence and significant service in either professional organizations.