Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf was 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 was also the author of numerous other contributions to optics.
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Background
- Born in
- Prague
- Educated at
- University of Bristol
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Frederic Ives Medal🏆 Max Born Award🏆 Fellow of the Optical Society🏆 Albert A. Michelson Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Edward Linfoot
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Girish Agarwal📖 Muhammad Suhail Zubairy📖 Brian Cairns
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1922
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Died
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