Charles E. Mees

Charles E. Mees

Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (born May 26, 1882 in Wellingborough , England , † August 15, 1960 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was a British-American physicist and photographer .

Life

Mees was the son of a minister (pastor) of the Methodist and Wesleyan churches and went to the University of London . In 1906 he received the D.Sc. with a dissertation in photographic theory. From 1906 to 1912 he worked for Wratten and Wainwright, Ltd. and assisted Frederick Wratten in the development of the first panchromatic film plates, as well as filters and darkroom lighting .

In 1912, Eastman Kodak bought Wratten and Wainwright because they were interested in Mees' skills. Mees moved to the United States and created Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester , New York and became its first director . He later became Vice President, Research and Development for Eastman-Kodak, and remained in the position until he retired in 1955.

During his career he published 100 scientific papers and 60 other papers. Among his achievements was the development of a sensitive photographic emulsion for astronomy .

From 1947 to 1954, Mees served as the first President of the Board of Trustees of the George Eastman House in Rochester , New York , the oldest photography museum in the world.

Memberships

In 1937 Mees was elected to the American Philosophical Society , in 1941 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1950 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• An Atlas of Absorption Spectra , 1909.
• The Photography of Colored Objects , 1909.
• Photography , Macmillan Co., New York, 1942.
• The Theory of the Photographic Process , Macmillan Co., New York, 1942.
• with S. Sheppard: Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process .
• The Path of Science , J. Wiley & sons, inc., 1946.
• with John A. Leermakers: The Organization of Industrial Scientific Research , McGraw-Hill, 1950.
• From dry plates to ektachrome film: a story of photographic research , Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1961.

Awards and naming

• Progress Medal, Royal Photographic Society, Great Britain
• Henry Draper Medal , National Academy of Sciences , 1936.
• Franklin Medal.
• Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
• Fellow of the Royal Society , 1939.
• Inductee, International Photography Hall of Fame, 1972.
• The CEK Mees Award is Kodak's highest award
• The CEK Mees Medal, which is awarded in odd years by the Optical Society of America , is named after him
• The University of Rochester 's CEK Mees Observatory is named after him
• The lunar crater Mees (crater) was named after him
• The Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala was named after him

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. CE Kenneth Mees (PDF; 5.9 MB) Image (The Bulletin of the George Eastman House). Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 15, 2010. 
2. ^ Member History: Charles EK Mees. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 30, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved February 12, 2018 . 

Web links

• Dr. CE Kenneth Mees. International Photography Hall of Fame 
• Historically speaking - tribute to CE Kenneth Mees, scientist and photographer, and former VP at Eastman Kodak