Emil Wolf Physicist Optics (1 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Emil Wolf is aCzech born American physicist who made advancements in physical opticsincluding diffraction, coherence properties of optical fieldsspectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of directscattering and inverse scattering. He is also the author of severalworks on optics. Wolf was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was forcedto leave his native country when the Germans invaded; After briefperiods in Italy and France, he came to the United Kingdom in 1940. Hereceived his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, and PhD in Mathematicsfrom Bristol University, England, in 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 heworked at the University of Edinburgh with Max Born, writing the famoustext-book on Optics now usually known simply as 'Born and Wolf'.…