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Holography Pioneer Passes Away
Hal-9001 writes "The New York Times has an article on Emmett Leith, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and inventor of three-dimensional holography, who passed away on Dec. 23, 2005. Professor Leith and his coworker Juris Upatnieks displayed the world's first three-dimensional hologram at a conference of the Optical Society of America in 1964."
He's no longer creating an interference pattern with the living.
No, as the article says, Dennis Gabor invented holography and coined the term "hologram", in 1948.
Leith created the first laser holograph, which was a big deal, and made holographs vastly more practical, and he deserves tons of credit for that, but not the same as inventing the field. There's a reason Gabor won a Nobel prize.
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