Kenneth Mees

Charles Edward Kenneth Mees ( born May 26, 1882 in Wellingborough, England; † August 15, 1960 in Honolulu, Hawaii ) was a British- American physicist and photographer.

Life

Mees was the son of a minister ( pastor ) of the Methodist and Wesleyan churches and went to the University of London. In 1906 he received the D.Sc. with a dissertation in photographic theory. From 1906 to 1912 he worked for Wratten and Wainwright, Ltd.. and assisted Frederick Wratten in the development of the first panchromatic film plates, as well as filters and a safelight.

In 1912 Eastman Kodak Wratten and Wainwright because they were interested in the capabilities of Mees. Mees moved to the U.S. and created the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York and was its first director. He later became vice president for research and development of Eastman Kodak and remained in the position until his retirement in 1955.

During his career he published 100 scientific and 60 other works. Among his achievements was the development of a sensitive photographic emulsion for astronomy.

From 1947 to 1954 Mees served as the first President of the Supervisory Board (Board of Trustees ) of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the oldest photography museum in the world.

Writings

  • An Atlas of Absorption Spectra, 1909.
  • The Photography of Colored Objects, 1909.
  • Photography, Macmillan Co., New York, 1942.
  • The Theory of the Photographic Process, Macmillan Co., New York, 1942.
  • With S. Sheppard: Investigations on the Theory of the Photographic Process.
  • The Path of Science, J. Wiley & sons, inc, 1946.
  • With John A. Leermakers: The Organization of Industrial Scientific Research, McGraw -Hill, 1950.
  • From dry plates to ektachrome movie: a story of photographic research, Ziff- Davis Pub. Co., 1961.

Awards and naming

  • Progress Medal, Royal Photographic Society, UK
  • Henry Draper Medal, National Academy of Sciences, 1936.
  • Franklin Medal.
  • Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, 1939.
  • Inductee, International Photography Hall of Fame, 1972.
  • The C.E.K. Mees Award is the highest award from Kodak
  • The C.E.K. Mees Medal, which is awarded in odd-numbered years by the Optical Society of America, was named after him
  • The University of Rochester 's C.E.K. Mees Observatory is named after him
  • The lunar crater Mees ( crater ) was named after him
  • The Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala was named after him
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