Emil Wolf
Czech-American physicist
Emil Wolf was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse... Wikipedia
Born: July 30, 1922, Prague, Czechia
Died: June 2, 2018 (age 95 years), Rochester, NY
Notable students: Greg Gbur, Girish Saran Agarwal, and Muhammad Suhail Zubairy
Academic advisors: Max Born and Edward Linfoot
Research interests: Optics and Coherence
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