Herbert Winful

Herbert Graves Winful (born 3 December 1952) is a Ghanaian-American engineering professor, whose honours include in 2020 the Quantum Electronics Award. He is the Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

Early years and education Winful was born in London, England, to Margaret Ferguson Graves, a teacher, and Herbert Francis, an engineer. where he attended Catholic Jubilee School and St Augustine's College.

From 1980 to 1986, Winful was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, conducting research in fiber optics and semiconductor laser physics. who in 2018 was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of a technique known as Chirped Pulse Amplification.

Having published more than 130 journal articles and supervised the research of PhD students,

In November 2022, Winful was inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS).

Family and personal life Winful's mother was the headmistress of St. Michael's School in Cape Coast, and his father was a civil engineer who worked on the Akosombo Dam during its construction and later become executive secretary of the Volta River Authority.

Winful is also a musician, during his Cape Coast school days playing rhythm guitar in a pop band, as well as organ in church. Winful performed one of his own original compositions at a party attended by some two hundred people in celebration of Gérard Mourou's 2018 Nobel win, and also honoured Mourou with the gift of a piece of Kente cloth. College of Engineering Raymond J. and Monica E. Schultz Outreach and Diversity Award, 2021

Publications Selected articles (With D. T. Walton) "Passive Mode Locking with an Active Nonlinear Directional Coupler: Positive Group-Velocity Dispersion", Optics Letters, 18, 720–722 (1 May 1993). (With S. Feng and R. W. Hellwarth) "Gouy Shift and Temporal Reshaping of Focused Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses", Optics Letters., 23, 385 (1998). (With S. Hunsche, S. Feng, A. Leitenstorfer, E. P. Ippen, and M. C. Nuss) "Spatiotemporal Focusing of Single-cycle Light Pulses", submitted to Optics Letters (1998). (With S. Feng and R. W. Hellwarth) "Spatiotemporal Evolution of Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses", submitted to Physical Review E (1998). (With S. Feng) "Fields of Single-cycle Terahertz Pulses Generated by a Loop Antenna", in CLEO '98 Proceedings (May 1998). "Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling", in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2003), paper QFA5. DOI: 10.1109/QELS.2003.238281.

"Compressing light and sound through chirpedpulse stimulated brillouin scattering", Optics Infobase Conference Papers (2013).