"Father of Quantum Optics" Leonard Mandel Signed Announcement For Sale
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"Father of Quantum Optics" Leonard Mandel Signed Announcement:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Father of Quantum Optics" Leonard Mandel Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1989.
February 9, 2001) was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester when
he died at the age of 73 at his home in Pittsford, New York.
He contributed immensely to theoretical and experimental optics and is widely
considered one of the founding fathers of the field of quantum optics.
With Emil Wolf he published the highly regarded book Optical
Coherence and Quantum Optics. Mandel was born in Berlin, Germany, where his father, Robert
(Naftali) Mandel, had emigrated from Eastern Europe. He received a BSc degree in mathematics and physics in 1947 and a PhD degree in nuclear
physics in 1951 from Birkbeck College, University of London, in
the United Kingdom. He became
a technical officer at Imperial Chemical
Industries Ltd in Welwyn, UK, in 1951. In 1955, he became a lecturer and, later,
senior lecturer at Imperial College London,
University of London. He remained at Imperial until 1964, when he joined the
University of Rochester as a professor of physics. Mandel published over 260
scientific papers dealing with problems of optical coherence, lasers, quantum
interactions and non-classical states of light. Together with Prof. Emil Wolf,
Mandel organized a series of international conferences, known as the Rochester
Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics, which were extremely influential
in the history of the field of Quantum Optics. Mandel was a referee for
approximately 24 scientific journals and 6 research agencies. He was on the
Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America from 1985-1988, and was
Associate Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society 1970-1976 and 1982-1983.
Mandel was also a member of the Editorial Board for both Physical Review and
Quantum Optics. In addition to his ground-breaking research, Mandel was known
as an exceptional teacher and in 1992 he was awarded the Faculty Graduate
Teaching Award by the University of Rochester.
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