Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf · Science & Medicine
Physicist; optical coherence theory (co-author of 'Principles of Optics')
1922, Prague, Czechoslovakia — 2018, Rochester, New York, United States
Czechoslovakia · United Kingdom · United States
Emil Wolf is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; optical coherence theory (co-author of 'Principles of Optics')
Wolf was a physicist who did foundational work in optical coherence theory and predicted the Wolf effect, a frequency shift of light caused by correlations in the source. Born into a Prague Jewish family, he fled the Nazis and eventually settled in the United States, where he co-authored with Max Born the classic treatise 'Principles of Optics,' one of the most cited textbooks in the physical sciences. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester.
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Physicist; optical coherence theory (co-author of 'Principles of Optics')
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