Tom Baur

Founder of Meadowlark Optics, Tom Baur (MAstroPhys) and the international Society for Optics and Photonics, known as SPIE, created the first endowed faculty chair at JILA, a joint institute for CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards & Technology. The Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optics and Photonics will be funded by gifts of $1.5 million from Tom and Jeanne Baur, $500,000 from SPIE and $500,000 from CU. Tom lives in Ault, Colorado.