John A. Armstrong holds an AB in physics from Harvard College (1956) and a PhD (1961) from Harvard University for research in nuclear magnetic resonance at high pressures. He worked at IBM from 1963 to 1993, retiring as a member of the Corporate Management Board and Vice President, Science and Technology. Dr. Armstrong is internationally recognized as an expert in nonlinear optics, the statistical properties of laser light, picosecond pulse measurements and the multiphoton laser spectroscopy of atoms.
