Richard G. Brewer Prize

The Brewer Prize is awarded annually to a first-year student who provides the most creative and interesting solutions to the Physics 11 hurdles. The Prize will provide summer support so that the student may complete an independent Physics 11 research project. The prize was established by Caltech alumnus Richard G. Brewer who earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1951.

Brewer was the recipient of the OSA Charles Hard Townes Award "for his outstanding contributions to quantum optics, characterized by originality and diversity, involving the interplay of theory and elegant experiments to elucidate fundamental problems of coherent optical transients, using atoms, molecules, solids and trapped ions."