Emmett Leith
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'''Emmett Leith''' (born [[March 12]], [[1927]] in [[Detroit, Michigan]]; died [[December 23]], [[2005]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]) was a [[professor]] of [[electrical engineering]] at the [[University of Michigan]] and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional [[holography]].
Leith received his B.S. in [[physics]] from [[Wayne State University]] in 1949 and his M.S. in physics in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Wayne State in 1978. Much of Leith's holographic work was an outgrowth of his research on [[synthetic aperture radar]] (SAR) performed while a member of the Radar Laboratory of the University of Michigan's [[Environmental Research Institute of Michigan| Willow Run Laboratory]] beginning in 1953.
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 received the 1960 [[IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award]]. In 1979, President [[Jimmy Carter]] awarded Leith with the [[National Medal of Science]] for his research.
==References==
* Schwartz, John. ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/national/06leith.html "Emmett Leith, 78, a Pioneer in the Development of Holography, Dies"]'', [[The New York Times]]. January 6, 2006. Retrieved January 8, 2006.
* Emmett N. Leith Papers, [http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/ Bentley Historical Library], [http://www.umich.edu University of Michigan].
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