Emil Wolf

Emil Wolf ( born July 30, 1922 in Prague) is an American physicist who deals with optics and quantum optics.

Life and work

Wolf left after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis his home and went to Italy and France in 1940 to the UK. He studied at Bristol University, where he in 1945 his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned his doctorate in 1948. 1951 to 1954 he was assistant to Max Born at the University of Edinburgh ( where he worked on the new edition of the famous book - optics and 1955 a D.Sc. received. ) And was then at the University of Manchester. From 1959 he was professor at the University of Rochester. Currently (2009) he is there Wilson Professor of Optical Physics.

Wolf is for theoretical investigations of the optical system ( such as theory of diffraction, coherence properties and the polarization properties of optical fields, spectroscopy partially coherent light scattering theory and inverse scattering theory) and for several standard works on optics and quantum optics known, with co-authors such as Max Born and Leonard Mandel. According to him, the Wolf effect of the frequency shift is named.

In 1978 he was president of the Optical Society of America, the Max Born prize he received in 1987 and the Frederic Ives Medal in 1977. 1991 he received the Gold Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 1980 he received the Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute. In 1987 he received the Italian Marconi medal. He is a multiple honorary doctorates (including Edinburgh, Bristol, Aalborg, Groningen, Quebec, Olomouc).

Since 1961 he is the editor of the series Progress in Optics.

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