John Nelson Howard (February 27, 1921 – April 15, 2015) was president of the Optical Society of America in 1991. He was the founding editor of the scientific...

mathematician John Howard (NIOSH director), American public health administrator John Howard (optical physicist) (1921–2015), president of the Optical Society...

optical system will behave without requiring an explanation of what is "waving" in what medium. Until the middle of the 19th century, most physicists...

John Donovan Strong (1905-1992) was an American physicist and astronomer. One of the world's foremost optical scientists of his day, Strong was known...

understand the optical spectroscopy of II-VI semiconductor compounds. Condensed matter physicist Philip W. Anderson reported that John Hopfield was his...

Howard John Carmichael (born 17 January 1950) is a British-born New Zealand theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics and the theory of open...

Wilson Bates, Jr., (September 5, 1932 – February 18, 2024) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. Bates developed an x-ray image intensifier tube...

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...

waves. Thus, an optical fiber or a copper cable is used as transmission media. Electromagnetic radiation can be transmitted through an optical medium, such...

Spring Fair. The German physicist Arthur Korn developed the first practical method for telegraphy. 1905: The Englishman Sir John Ambrose Fleming invents...

Frederick Hess (born September 12, 1955) is an American physicist and Senior Group Leader at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus, known...

August Herman Pfund (December 28, 1879 – January 4, 1949) was an American physicist, spectroscopist, and inventor. Pfund was born in Madison, Wisconsin and...

John Mace Grunsfeld (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and has...

Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at...

Perley Gilman Nutting (1873–1949) was an American optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He served as its first president...

physicist who is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences at Cornell University. She is an Investigator of the Howard...

[ˈfraʊnˌhoːfɐ]; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses...

of Hertz, British physicist Oliver Lodge gave a memorial lecture on Hertz experiments. He set up a demonstration on the quasi optical nature of Hertzian...

West as Alhazan, was a leading Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. His optical compendium, Kitab al-Manazir, is the greatest medieval work on optics...

Howard Berg - biophysicist noted for his work on the motility of the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) Steven Block - pioneered the use of optical...

microwave-transparent material to bend and focus microwaves by refraction, as an optical lens does for light. Typically it consists of a small feed antenna such...

Wendell Talbot Hill III (born 1952) is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland. His research career has largely focused on the...

Mabuchi, physicist Susan Marshall, choreographer Samuel Mockbee, architect Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights policy analyst Margaret Murnane, optical physicist Laura...

John Bardeen ForMemRS (/bɑːrˈdiːn/; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded...

technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, spectroscopy (and its applications...

disciplines. A scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a physicist. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines. Over much of the past...

nanotechnologist Joan Dingley – mycologist John Newton Dodd – optical physicist Richard Dowden – radio and space physicist Peter David Drummond – quantum optics...

James Edward Young (born January 18, 1926) is an American physicist who was the first black tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics at Massachusetts...

gallery) An exhibit of similar optical toys, including the zoetrope (Laura Hayes and John Howard Wileman Exhibit of Optical Toys in the NCSSM) Some pictures...

they are there." Many physicists quickly realized that Hertzian waves could be used (instead of light) in systems akin to optical telegraph: for example...