Antigone Marino, Italian National Research CouncilAntigone Marino, Italian National Research Council, Italy, reflects on how seeing an image appear on photographic paper as a young child was the reason she went into optics.
4/20/2016
Alan Willner, University of Southern CaliforniaAlan Willner, OSA President and OSA Fellow, University of Southern California, USA, shares how he went from almost being a patent attorney to a career in optics.
4/20/2016
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4/6/2016
Susana Marcos, Instituto de OpticaOSA Fellow, Susana Marcos, Instituto de Optica, Spain, recalls how her love of physics helped kindle an interest in optics.
3/29/2016
Shanti Bhattacharya, ITT Madras"I feel a bit like a detective in my research", exclaims Shanti Bhattacharya, ITT Madras, India.
3/29/2016
Qing Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)OSA Fellow, Qing Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, reflects on how his photography hobby led him into optics.
3/29/2016
Eric Mazur, Harvard UniversityOSA Fellow and 2017 President-Elect, Eric Mazur, recounts the inspiration behind pursuing research at Harvard University, USA.
3/29/2016
Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth CollegePast President and OSA Fellow, Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College, USA, reminisces about her time as a graduate student at MIT working under the late Nobel Prize Winner Charles H. Townes.
3/29/2016
David Reitze, California Institute of TechnologyLIGO researcher, David Reitze, California Institute of Technology, USA, working with lasers as a graduate student led to a career in optics.
3/29/2016
Bienvenu Ndagano, University of WitwatersrandBienvenu Ndagano, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, discovered his passion for optics and communications with light as an undergraduate.
3/29/2016