Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky · Science & Medicine
Physicist; multiple-beam interferometry and surface microtopography
1907, Newcastle upon Tyne, England — 1973, London, England
United Kingdom
Samuel Tolansky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; multiple-beam interferometry and surface microtopography
Tolansky was a British physicist who developed multiple-beam interferometry, a technique that measures surface features and film thicknesses down to fractions of a wavelength of light, revolutionizing surface microtopography and the study of crystals and diamonds. He was professor of physics at Royal Holloway and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, he was Jewish.
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Physicist; multiple-beam interferometry and surface microtopography
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