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In our time of ever-increasing specialization, there is a tendency to concern ourselves with relatively narrow scientific problems. The broad foundations of our present-day scientific knowledge and its historical development tend to be forgotten too often. This is an unfortunate trend, not only because our horizon becomes rather limited and our perspective somewhat distorted, but also because there are many valuable lessons to be learned in looking back over the years during which the basic concepts and the fundamental laws of a particular scientific discipline were first formulated.

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Emil Wolf

Emil Wolf

Born: July 30, 1922
Died: June 2, 2018 (aged 95)
Bio: 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 scattering.
Known for:
  1. Principles of Optics (1959)
  2. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (1995)

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