Dr. John C Russ

In his fifty-year career as scientist and educator, John Russ has used image processing and analysis as a principal tool for understanding and characterizing the structure and function of materials. Images from a wide variety of devices - including light and electron microscopes, x-ray and neutron tomography, and more - require computer processing and measurement to extract the important data. Familiarity with the algorithms and instruments led to Dr. Russ' expertise being extended to a much broader range of images - from astronomy to biomedical research to food science to forensics. Teaching the principles and methods involved to several thousand students, and consulting for many industrial clients, has further broadened Dr. Russ' experience and the scope of applications for image processing and analysis. His numerous books provide a workflow-oriented guide to performing image processing, richly illustrated comparisons of various methods, programming code to implement the algorithms, and applications - specific examples in fields as diverse as food science, metrology, materials analysis, and forensics. On November 16, 2006, the New York Microscopical Society awarded John Russ the Ernst Abbe Memorial Award for his contributions to the field of microscopy as a developer of computer-assisted microscopy and image analysis.