Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922 in Prague ; † June 2, 2018 ) was an American physicist who dealt with optics and quantum optics .
life and work
Wolf left as his brother (they were persecuted as Jews, her parents died in the Holocaust) after the German invasion in Czechoslovakia in 1939 his home and went through Italy and France in 1940 to the UK . He studied at Bristol University , where he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1945 and his doctorate in 1948. From 1951 to 1954 he was Max Born's assistant at the University of Edinburgh (where he worked on the new edition of the famous book on optics and received his doctorate in 1955 ) and was then at the University of Manchester . From 1959 he was a professor at the University of Rochester , most recently there he was Wilson Professor of Optical Physics .
Wolf became known through theoretical studies on optics (such as the theory of diffraction, coherence properties and polarization properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent light, scattering theory and inverse scattering theory) and through several standard works on optics and quantum optics, with co-authors such as Max Born and Leonard Mandel . The Wolf effect of frequency shifting is named after him.
Honors and awards (selection)
- 1978 President of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
- 1977 Frederic Ives Medal of the OSA
- 1980 Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute
- 1987 Max Born Award from OSA
- 1987 Marconi Medal from the Italian Research Council
- 1991 gold medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences
- 2010 GG Stokes Award from SPIE
- Wolf has multiple honorary doctorates (including from the Universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Aalborg, Groningen, Quebec, Olomouc ).
- From 1961 to 2015 he was editor of the Progress in Optics series by Elsevier Verlag.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Memoriam: Emil Wolf, 1922-2018. The Optical Society, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolf Noncosmological Redshifts of spectral lines , Nature, Vol. 326, 1987, pp 363-365.
- ↑ a b Emil Wolf. OSA, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Emil Wolf Wins SPIE GG Stokes Award. March 5, 2010, accessed February 8, 2018 .
- ^ Series: Progress in Optics. elsevier.com, accessed February 8, 2018 .
Fonts
- with Max Born: Principles of Optics, 7th edition, Cambridge University Press 1999
- with Mandel: Optical coherence and quantum optics, Cambridge University Press 1995
- with Mandel: Coherence properties of optical fields, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 37, 1965, p. 231, review of their work by Mandel, Wolf in Science Citation Classics, PDF file
- Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light, Cambridge University Press 2007
- Selected works of Emil Wolf with commentary, World Scientific 2001
- Editor with Leonard Mandel: Selected papers on coherence and fluctuations of light, 1850-1966, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 1990
literature
- Tomasz P. Jansson (Ed.): Tribute to Emil Wolf - science and engineering legacy in physical optics . SPIE, Bellingham, Washington 2005, ISBN 0-8194-5441-9 (English).
Web links
- Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics, Professor of Optics. The Institute of Optics, Rochester University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 2018 |