Howard S. Coleman

Howard S. Coleman (born January 10, 1917 in Everett , Pennsylvania , United States , † October 29, 1996 in Arlington , Virginia , United States) was an American physicist , researcher , professor and Oscar winner.

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Origin, education and first professional steps

The son of a baker had a brother and sister and studied physics at Pennsylvania State University in the late 1930s and early 1940s . Coleman married for the first time while still a student in 1941 and received his doctorate in the same year. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University, he was brought in, where he began teaching for the first time. Since 1945 Coleman was a member of the Optical Society of America . In 1947 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin for four years , where he continued to teach. He got his own laboratory there, "The Naval Research Laboratory in Optics", and published a number of papers in Texas that were devoted to topics related to optics . Since this area was also of great interest to the US military, Coleman received official support from the Office of Naval Research . During this time he published over 200 papers on the subjects of optics, physics, metallurgy , astronomy , chemistry , photography and aerodynamics .

Research activities and awards

After he had ended this second university career in 1951, Coleman was appointed head of the research department of the Bausch-Lomb Optical Company and was finally appointed vice president. Here he was responsible for research and engineering / technology. Coleman's achievements in the optics sector earned Coleman, who was still employed by Bausch-Lomb, his first technology Oscar in 1956 (for the development of CinemaScope lenses, which he had directed development). 1960 followed another award with the Academy Prize, this time in equal parts to Coleman, A. Francis Turner, Harold H. Schroeder, James R. Benford and Harold E. Rosenberger (all Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.) "for the design and the development of the Balcold projection mirror ”went. In 1963 Coleman was appointed head of the physics research department at the Washington DC-based company Melpar, and a year later he was dean of the College of Engineering at Arizona University . He stayed there until 1968, when he went to Washington DC that year, where he served as Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy at the Office of Solar Heat Technologies Solar Thermal Technology Division . In addition, Coleman was also the director of the Special Projects Center at the University of Texas in El Paso .

Web links

• Full biography in: University of Texas