Don Hendrix

Don Osgood Hendrix (1905-1961) was an American optician.

In 1932, with only a High School education, Don Hendrix began making Schmidt-camera optics at the Mount Wilson Observatory, where by 1942 he would become the master optician. He was responsible for finishing and polishing the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch primary and the 120-inch primary at Lick Observatory, among many other contributions.

In 1958 he became a member of the board of directors of Davidson Optronics, Inc. He developed a modified Twyman-Green interferometer (called the Hendrix Interferometer).

The crater Hendrix on the Moon is named after him.

References

• Anonymous (December 2004). "Davidson Optronics, Inc." (PDF). Images newsletter, volume 11, issue 3. Optical Society of Southern California. http://www.ossc.org/PDFs/December%202004%20newsletter.pdf. Retrieved 2006-08-10. ^{[dead link]}
• Osterbrock, Donald E. (2003). "Don Hendrix, master Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories optician". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 6 (1): 1–12. Bibcode 2003JAHH....6....1O. 
• Pendergrast, Mark (July 1, 2003). Mirror Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection. Basic Books. ISBN 0465054714. 

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Name	Hendrix, Don
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Date of birth	1905
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Date of death	1961
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