Emil Wolf
| Emil Wolf | |
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| Born |
July 30, 1922 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Residence | United States United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | Czech, American |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions |
University of Edinburgh University of Manchester University of Rochester |
| Alma mater | Bristol University |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward H. Linfoot |
| Other academic advisors | Max Born |
| Doctoral students |
Kenro Miyamoto |
| Known for |
Coherence Theory Wolf effect |
| Notable awards |
Frederic Ives Medal (1978) Michelson Medal (1980) Max Born Award (1987) Marconi Medal (1987) |
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Kenro Miyamoto
Yutaka Kano
Chandra Lal Mehta
Demosthenes Dialetis
Gabriel Bédard
Girish Agarwal
Éamon Lalor
Ashok Kumar Jaiswal
Deva Pattanayak
Anthony J. Devaney
Mandyam D Srinivas
John T. Foley
M. Suhail Zubairy
Ari T. Friberg
Alexander Starikov
Kisik Kim
Avshalom Gamliel
Brian Cairns
Daniel F. V. James
Weijian Wang
Marek W. Kowarz
David G. Fischer
P. Scott Carney
Gregory J Gbur
Sergey A. Ponomarenko
Hema Roychowdhury
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. He is also the author of several works on optics.
Wolf was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was forced to leave his native country when the Germans invaded; After brief periods in Italy and France (where he worked for the Czech government in exile), he came to the United Kingdom in 1940. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (1945), and PhD in Mathematics from Bristol University, England, in 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 he worked at the University of Edinburgh with Max Born, writing the famous textbook on Optics now usually known simply as 'Born and Wolf'. After a period on the Faculty of the University of Manchester, he moved to the United States in 1959 to take a position at the University of Rochester. He is currently (2012) the Wilson Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Rochester. He is a naturalized US citizen. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 1978. Wolf now resides in Cloverwood in Pittsford, New York, with his wife.
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