Ad Lagendijk

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Ad Lagendijk (2002)

Ad Lagendijk (born November 18, 1947 in Zwanenburg ) is a Dutch physicist.

Lagendijk studied physical chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (graduated in 1970) and received his doctorate there in 1974 ( An ESR-study of induced defects in SrTiO3 ). From 1973 he conducted research at the University of Antwerp and from 1981 at the University of Amsterdam, where he became professor of physics in 1984. From 1987 to 1996 he was head of the atomic and laser physics department at the Amolf Institute in Amsterdam (an institute of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, FOM, the Dutch research association NWO). Since 2002 he has been a professor at the University of Twente and also part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam.

He heads the Photon Scattering group at Amolf in Amsterdam and the Complex Photonic Systems group at the University of Twente.

He is known for research on the propagation of light in highly scattering media. In 1985 he and Meint P. van Albada observed weak localization and coherent backscattering (which is higher by a factor of two in the direction opposite to the direction of incidence than in any other direction) of light in disordered media (such as commercial white paint made from titanium oxide particles). In 1991 they also found a slowdown in light when scattered in strongly scattering media.

In 2012 his group in Enschede succeeded in reconstructing an image using opaque materials. The method is also intended to be used for the development of novel microscopes with applications in nanotechnology.

In 1995 he was a Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University . In 2002 he received the Spinoza Prize , the highest Dutch science award . In 1998 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997).

From 1991 to 2001 he was editor of Physics Letters A. He writes columns for the newspaper De Volkskrant . He also wrote a survival guide for scientists .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ adlagendijk.com
  2. ^ Van Albada, Lagendijk Observation of weak localization of light in a random medium , Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 55, 1985, pp. 2692-2695 and Journal Optical Society of America, 3, 1986, P226
  3. ^ MP van Albada, BA van Tiggelen, A. Lagendijk, A. Tip Speed ​​of propagation of classical waves in strongly scattering media , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 66, 1991, pp. 3132-3135
  4. ↑ Barbara Gross Levi Light travels more slowly through strongly scattering materials , Physics Today, June 1991
  5. ↑ Jacopo Bertolotti, Elbert G. van Putten, Christian Blum, Ad Lagendijk, Willem L. Vos, Allard P. Mosk A Non-invasive imaging through opaque scattering layers , Nature, Volume 491, 2012, pp. 232-234
  6. ↑ Free view through opaque materials , Physik Journal November 2012
personal data
SURNAME Lagendijk, Ad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwanenburg