More Famous Names in Optics

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  1. 3. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, the first female scientist to work for General Electric, and the inventor of low reflectance “invisible” glass.
  2. 5. The only person to win a Nobel Prize in multiple sciences and the first woman to win a Nobel in physics
  3. 7. A professor at the University of Pittsburg and a spectroscopist, she became OSA’s first executive secretary.
  4. 9. Known for her work in optical materials, particularly optical glass and the molecular structure of multicomponent glasses, she was the fourth female president of OSA.
  5. 10. She has patented devices to enhance optical communications, including lasers, waveguides and detectors. She was the second female president of the OSA.
  6. 13. The first female president of the Rochester Local Section of the Optical Society of America, she wrote the “History of the Optical Society of America, 1916-1966.”
  7. 14. This British chemist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She is regarded as one of the pioneers in X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules.
  8. 17. She published the first color difference formula for industrial use. Later, with E. Adams, she developed the ANLAB color space, the predecessor to CIELAB.
  9. 18. The 2012 winner of the R.W. Wood prize and a world-renowned expert on ultrafast lasers.
  10. 19. She was first female recipient of the APS Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics award.
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  1. 1. Winner of the 2011 Edwin Land Medal, she is head of the display division at Google X Lab. She is also founder of Pixel Qi, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-power LCD screens for laptops.
  2. 2. She co-invented chirped pulse amplification, which made it possible to amplify ultra-short pulses to unprecedented levels. She is the fifth female president of the OSA.
  3. 4. This 18th century French mathematician and physicist translated Isaac Newton’s work Principia Mathematica. Her translation remains the French standard. In 1737, she published a paper predicting infrared radiation.
  4. 6. She was the first female president of the Royal Astronomical Society. Since about 1980, she has been a key member of nearly every team devoted to the instruments used to study the ultra-violet and X-ray spectra of the sun and stars.
  5. 7. Former publisher and first managing editor of the journal Applied Optics.
  6. 8. Her name stands for the unit for the two-photon absorption cross-section. She was the second woman to win the Nobel in physics.
  7. 11. She is a CPA who has spent 30 years working in the corporate, federal and non-profit industries and 20 years at OSA. She is OSA’s first female CEO.
  8. 12. She was the first to manufacture a MacNeille cube polarizer at the University of Rochester in 1947. She wrote a classic JOSA paper that same year on making and using multilayer films.
  9. 14. She won the 2012 Adolph Lomb medal and is the director of the Columbia University Laboratory for Functional Optical Imaging.
  10. 15. She was a decorated research physicist recognized for her contributions to optical surfaces and OSA’s first female president.
  11. 16. As the U.S. member of the United Nations Space Surveillance Expert Group, she participated in establishing international policy for space. She was the third female president of OSA.