Category
page 1Optical engineers
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)

Liu Gang
Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
Yrjö Väisälä
Finnish astronomer and physicist
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov
Russian astronomer
Oskar Barnack
German optical engineer (1879–1936)
Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
sibling duo
Jesse Ramsden
British engraver and instrument maker
Henri Chrétien
French astronomer (1879–1956)
Frank Benford
American electrical engineer & physicist best known for rediscovering Benford's Law (1883-1948)
Amnon Yariv
American electrical engineer
Paul Rudolph
physicist (1858-1935)
Ignazio Porro
Italian inventor (1801–1875)
Jacob Metius
Dutch optician (1580-1628)
Peter Dolland
British astronomer
Harold Hopkins
British physicist
Nader Engheta
Iranian-American engineer
Simon Plössl
Austrian optician (1794–1868)
Herwig Kogelnik
Austrian electrical engineer
David R. Smith
American physicist

Georg Merz
optician (1793-1867)
Désiré van Monckhoven
Belgian chemist, inventor, physicist and photographic researcher (1834–1882)
Xiang Zhang
Chinese physicist, mechanical engineer, and president of the University of Hong Kong
Howard Grubb
maker of scientific instruments (1844-1931)
Ludwig Bertele
German inventor (1900-1985)
Pierre Angénieux
French engineer and optician (1907–1998)
Emma Beckwith
American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician, inventor (1849-1919)
Ataç İmamoğlu
Turkish-Swiss professor of physics (born 1964)

James Fujimoto
American electrical engineer and optical coherence tomography researcher
Albert Arnulf
French engineer and physicist (1898-1984)
Siegfried Czapski
German physicist (1861-1907)
Georges Oberhäuser
German physicist (1798-1868)
Wang Daheng
Chinese optical physicist
Rudolf Kingslake
British engineer (1903-2003)