Joseph W. Goodman

Joseph W. Goodman (* 1936) is an American physicist and electrical engineer who deals with optics.

Goodman studied electrical engineering and applied physics at Harvard University (bachelor's degree in 1958) and electrical engineering at Stanford University , where he earned his master's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1963. 1962/63 he was a post-doctoral student in Norway (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment). He was then back as a researcher at Stanford University, where he was an assistant professor in 1967, an associate professor in 1969 and a professor in 1972. From 1988 he was William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering and until 1996 head of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. From 2000 he is professor emeritus there. In 1973/74 he was visiting professor at the Institut d´Optique in Orsay and in 1984 visiting scholar at the University of Sydney .

He held various high positions in the Optical Society of America (OSA), including serving as its president in 1992. From 1988 to 1990 he was governor of the SPIE . He was co-founder and board member of Optivisions and ONI Systems and in the management of several other companies in the optical industry.

In 1983 he received the Max Born Award from the OSA for his contributions to physical optics, especially holography , synthetic aperture optics, image processing and speckle theory. In 1987 he received the Dennis Gabor Award from SPIE for his contributions to holography, optical information processing and optical computers. In 1990 he received the OSA's highest award, the Frederic Ives Medal . In 2007 he received the gold medal of the SPIE and in 2009 the Emmett Leith Medal of the OSA. He received the FE Terman Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 1971 and the Esther Beller Hoffman Education Medal from the OSA in 1995. From 1978 to 1983 he was editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America. From 1988 to 1990 he was President of the International Commission of Optics (ICO).

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alabama .

Fonts

• Introduction to Fourier Optics, McGraw Hill 1968, 3rd edition Roberts and Company 2005 (also translated into French, Masson 1972)
• Statistical Optics, John Wiley 1985
• Speckle Phenomena in Optics, Roberts and Company 2006
• with RM Gray: Fourier Transforms: An Introduction for Engineers, Kluwer 1995,
• Synthetic Aperture Optics, in Emil Wolf (editor) Progress in Optics, Vol. 8, 1970

Web links

• Homepage in Stanford