Harold Hopkins (physicist)
id:
harold-hopkins-physicist-203-16203535
title:
Harold Hopkins (physicist)
text:
Harold Horace Hopkins FRS was a British physicist. His Wave Theory of Aberrations,, is central to all modern optical design and provides the mathematical analysis which enables the use of computers to create the highest quality lenses. In addition to his theoretical work, his many inventions are in daily use throughout the world. These include zoom lenses, coherent fibre-optics and more recently the rod-lens endoscopes which 'opened the door' to modern key-hole surgery. He was the recipient of m
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
British physicist (1918–1994)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hopkins_(physicist)
date created:
2008-08-08T13:20:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:02:47Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q301656","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q301656"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15