Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
Yuri Nikolayevich Denisjuk (Russian Юрий Николаевич Денисюк; born July 27, 1927 in Sochi, † 14 May, 2006 St. Petersburg ) was a Russian physicist who became known through his contributions to holography.
Life and performance
Denisjuk spent his youth in Leningrad and was during the siege of Leningrad in the city. His academic career began in 1954 with a degree at the Leningrad Institute of Precision Engineering. Inspired by the science fiction short story " Stellar Ships" by Ivan Yefremov, who appears in a polished metal disc which shows a three-dimensional image of a head, he began in 1958 with our own experiments, based on the Lippmann method. For this purpose, he used a mercury vapor lamp, since the lasers were developed later.
Denisjuk invented in 1962 the Denisjuk holography ( Weißlichtholografie ) and established the first white-light reflection hologram, which could be viewed with a white light source. These achievements were recognized only in the late 1960s in the USSR, became the holography in the Western world importance. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1970, 1982 and 1989 received the State Prize of the USSR, was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
He was head of the Laboratory of Holography in the State Optical Institute Vavilov in Saint Petersburg and at the Joffe Institute.