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The early writers discussed here treated vision more as a geometrical than as a physical, physiological, or psychological problem. The first known author of a treatise on geometrical optics was the geometer Euclid (c. 325 BC–265 BC). Euclid began his study of optics as he began his study of geometry, with a set of self-evident axioms.
Category for people in the scientific field of optics Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. E. Optical engineers (2 C, 97 P) O.
Optical physicists are physicists that study optics phenomena. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. American ...
Wrote a famous paper in 1938 on stellar nucleosynthesis: Nuclear physics: Ernest Rutherford [144] Developed the Rutherford atom model (1909) Nuclear science: Marie Curie Pierre Curie [145] Optics: Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) [146] Correctly explained vision and carried out the first experiments on light and optics in the Book of Optics (1021 ...
Alhazen's most famous work is his seven-volume treatise on optics Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), written from 1011 to 1021. [48] In it, Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one's eyes, [ 14 ] and to argue that vision occurs in the brain, pointing to observations ...
[13] [14] Investigating optics – specifically light refraction – Hooke inferred a wave theory of light. [15] His is the first-recorded hypothesis of the cause of the expansion of matter by heat, [16] of air's composition by small particles in constant motion that thus generate its pressure, [17] and of heat as energy. [18]
In 1969, Kao with M. W. Jones measured the intrinsic loss of bulk-fused silica at 4 dB/km, which is the first evidence of ultra-transparent glass. Bell Labs started considering fibre optics seriously. [51] As of 2017, fibre optic losses (from both bulk and intrinsic sources) are as low as 0.1419 dB/km at the 1.56 μm wavelength. [52]
Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.