SCIENTISTS

Stephen Benton :

 Pioneer of modern holography 

Stephen Benton (1941-2003) as well, is amongst the pioneers of modern holography. He is the inventor of Benton holography, also referred to as rainbow holography (1969), a fascinating holographic process that allowed the subsequent realization of holograms that can be illuminated with white light, holograms that display in true colours, and holograms that display true color cinematographic animations. The May 2004 issue of the magazine "Holography" features a tribute to Stephen Benton as a scientist, a teacher, a colleague and a friend.

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SCIENTISTS

Yuri Denisyuk :

 Pioneer of modern holography

The eminent Russian gentleman and physicist Yuri Denisyuk (1927-2006) together with Emmett Leith (1927-2005) and Juris Upatnieks (b. 1936) must be honoured as one of the pioneers of modern holography. After lasers became available Denisyuk developed "volume reflection holography" rightfully also called "Denisyuk holography".
Denisyuk began experiments in interference photography in 1958 and published his work in 1962 in the Soviet Union. But his research was not well received until the work of Leith and Upatnieks began to generate excitement in the late sixties. In 1970 he was awarded the Lenin Prize and was elected a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Denisyuk and Leith received the first Dennis Gabor Award from SPIE in 1983.

SCIENTISTS

Emmett Leith:- 

 Pioneer of Modern Holography

As early as 1956, Emmett Leith of the University of Michigan reinvented holography as a spin-off of his research on side-reading radar. Only in the early 1960s, after the invention of the laser, the first off-axis laser transmission holograms were recorded by Leith and his colleague Juris Upatnieks. These novel holograms of diffusely reflecting objects produced stunning three-dimensional and full-parallax reconstructions of the original object. The impact of this invention on the careers of many can hardly be overrated.