The Optical Society announced 17 recipients of the 2021 OSA awards and medals. The society will recognize a total of 23 awardees throughout the year for their achievements. Among those honored this year are the first women to win the Max Born Award, the C.E.K. Mees Medal, and the John Tyndall Award. The award recipients follow. Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College, United States For outstanding leadership in photonics technician education, including the development and dissemination of innovative educational materials. Max Born Award Anne L’Huillier, Lund University, Sweden For pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics, realizing and understanding high harmonic generation and applying it to time-resolved imaging of electron motion in atoms and molecules. Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Anthony M. Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), United States For decades of principled leadership and steadfast service to The Optical Society and to the optics community, and especially for serving as a tireless ambassador for OSA. Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, United States For pioneering research on optical sensing in scattering media, especially diffuse optical and correlation spectroscopy and tomography, and for advancing the field of biophotonics through mentorship. Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel For significant contributions to the field of optical superresolution including the invention of many novel concepts bypassing the Abbe limit of diffraction and the geometric limits set by the sensor. Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Martin D. Dawson, University of Strathclyde and Fraunhofer, United Kingdom For wide-ranging contributions to the development and application of III-V semiconductor devices, especially gallium-nitride micro-LEDs and optically pumped semiconductor lasers. Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Pierre Chavel, Institut d’Optique, France For outstanding support and promotion of optics throughout Europe, and exceptional leadership in institutions and scientific societies such as OSA, SPIE, ICO, EOS, and SFO. Emmett N. Leith Medal Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, United States For exceptional innovation and transformative technological impact on the field information optics, including pioneering contributions to digital holography for life sciences, information security, optical sensing, and processing of photon-starved scenes. Ellis R. Lippincott Award (presented with the Coblentz Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy) Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States For contributions to the fundamental physics and instrument engineering of mid-IR microscopy and its applications to medical imaging. Adolph Lomb Medal Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley, United States For important contributions to the advancement of computational microscopy and its applications. C.E.K. Mees Medal Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia For pioneering innovations in the transfer of optical angular momentum to particles, using sculpted light for laser manipulation on atomic, nano-, and microscales to generate fundamental insight and provide powerful probes to biomedicine. William F. Meggers Award Keith Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States For expanding the horizons of impulsive stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS) to the generation of intense tunable terahertz pulses, thus establishing new transient-grating techniques for a more effective application of time-domain coherent nonlinear spectroscopy in the study of condensed phase molecular dynamics. David Richardson Medal Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO: The Institute of Photonic Sciences, and ICREA: Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain For contributions to the advancement of nonlinear optical technology and commercial development of cutting-edge optical parametric oscillators. Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award Rengmao Wu, Zhejiang University, China For achievements in theory and computational methods for freeform illumination optics. Edgar D. Tillyer Award David H. Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, United States For groundbreaking experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how the visual system resolves the ambiguities inherent in sensory signals to produce a stable percept of object color. Charles Hard Townes Medal Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University, United States For his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to quantum nonlinear optics and quantum information science and technology, and for the development and application of nanoscale quantum systems for sensing. R. W. Wood Prize Tobias Kippenberg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland For pioneering contributions to the realization of chip-scale optical frequency combs.