John L. Hall

John L. Hall

male, 75 years old
JILA, American, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nobel laureate in Physics…National Bureau of Standards, Carnegie Institute of Technology, OpticalSocietyofAmerica, department of commerce, university of colorado at boulder
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in p...
Emmett Leith

Emmett Leith

male, deceased (2005)
University of Michigan, Wayne State University, professor, University of Michigan faculty, physics, electrical engineering…OpticalSocietyofAmerica, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, National Medal of Science
Emmett Leith (born March 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan; died December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at...
Philip Russell

Philip Russell

male, 56 years old
belfast, physicist, Third Division, Oriel College, Academic of the University of Southampton, Academic of the University of Bath…University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Fellow of the Royal Society, university of southampton, University of Bath, University of Oxford
Philip St. John Russell, FRS, (born March 25 1953, in Belfast) is the Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group at the...

David MacAdam

male, deceased (1998)
physicist, from Pennsylvania, eastman kodak, American, upper darby high school, OpticalSocietyofAmerica…Upper Darby High School's Wall of Fame, Sources of Color Science, The Science of Color
Dr. David MacAdam (1910-1998) graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1928. In 1980, he became only the second inductee of the Upper Darby High...

Jean-Luc Brédas

male
information technology, Wallonian, Francqui Prize, Photonics, OpticalSocietyofAmerica, American Physical Society
Jean-Luc Brédas is a Belgian chemist and professor at Georgia Tech in the United States. He studied chemistry and obtained a PhD at the University o...
Narinder Singh Kapany

Narinder Singh Kapany

male
fortune magazine, fiber optics, Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, punjabi, optical fiber, American…Department of Electrical Engineering, graduate of Agra university, Chairman of the Board, President, Imperial College of Science, Ph.D. from the University of London
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is widely acknowledged as the father of optical fiber. Earlier, Irish physicist John Tyndall had shown that light could...
Allan Boardman

Allan Boardman

male
physicist, magneto-optics, nonlinear waves, guided wave optics, Professor Allan Boardman, surface plasmons…Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Institute of Physics, OpticalSocietyofAmerica, University of Durham, university of salford
Professor Allan Boardman is well-known both in the UK and globally for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear...
Richard Tousey

Richard Tousey

male, deceased (1997)
Astronomer, Henry Draper Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Eddington Medal, outer space, space…OpticalSocietyofAmerica, National Academy of Sciences, Director of Research, American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society
Richard Tousey (May 18 1908 - April 15 1997) was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space. He won the...
Kenneth N. Ogle

Kenneth N. Ogle

male, deceased (1968)
Dartmouth College alumni, mayo clinic, Ophthalmologist, anatomist, American, OpticalSocietyofAmerica…Visual optics and the optical space sense Vol. 4, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 43, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 57, Archives of Ophthalmology, 75
Kenneth N. Ogle (1902-1968) was a scientist of human vision. Born in Colorado, he earned a bachelor's degree from Colorado College in 1925 and a...

William Frederick Meggers

male, deceased (1968)
Johns Hopkins University, physicist, moon, American, spectroscopy, ripon college…OpticalSocietyofAmerica, Carnegie Institute of Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Bureau of Standards, the Dean of American spectroscopist
William Frederick Meggers (July 13 1888 - 1966) was an American physicist specialising in spectroscopy. Born in Wisconsin, he had to combine his...