Rudolf Kingslake - A Life in Optics

If a single lens can form an image, why does our camera have several elements? A curious child, Rudolf Kingslake inquired of his father the answer to this question nearly one hundred years ago, foreshadowing his remarkable career in optics and his future influence on a newly formed branch of science.

List of contents

Foreword: A Promise to Be Fulfilled
Life History Album--The Early Years
Choosing a College
Life at 171 Grove Lane
Concentrating on Optics
Hilda Gertrude Conrady
Invitation to Rochester
Momentous Year--1929
Getting Established in America
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Teaching at the University
The Call to Kodak
The Kingslake Family during World War II
Knowing Rudolf
Later Life
Afterword: A Promise Fulfilled

About the author

Martin L. Scott

Product details

• Authors: Martin Scott, Martin (Person) Scott
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9781580463973
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-397-3
• No. of pages: 154
• Weight: 670 g
• Series: Meliora Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General