- Emmett Leith
Emmett Leith (
March 12 ,1927 inDetroit, Michigan –December 23 ,2005 inAnn Arbor, Michigan ) was aprofessor ofelectrical engineering at theUniversity of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensionalholography .Leith received his B.S. in
physics fromWayne State University in 1949 and his M.S. in physics in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Wayne State in 1978. Much of Leith's holographic work was an outgrowth of his research onsynthetic aperture radar (SAR) performed while a member of the Radar Laboratory of the University of Michigan's Willow Run Laboratory beginning in 1953.Professor Leith and his coworker
Juris Upatnieks displayed the world's first three-dimensional hologram at a conference of theOptical Society of America in 1964.He received the 1960
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award . In 1979, PresidentJimmy Carter awarded Leith with theNational Medal of Science for his research.References
* Schwartz, John. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/national/06leith.html "Emmett Leith, 78, a Pioneer in the Development of Holography, Dies"] ",
The New York Times . January 6, 2006. Retrieved January 8, 2006.
* Emmett N. Leith Papers, [http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/ Bentley Historical Library] , [http://www.umich.edu University of Michigan] .
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