Robert Clark Jones
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Robert Clark Jones
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R. Clark Jones was an American physicist working in the field of optics. He studied at Harvard University and received his PhD in 1941. Until 1944 he worked at Bell Labs, later until 1982 with the Polaroid Corporation. In a sequence of publications between 1941 and 1956 he demonstrated a mathematical model to describe the polarization of coherent light, the Jones calculus. When William Shurcliff wrote Polarized Light: Production and Use he praised R. C. Jones in the preface: "The author’s debt t
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American physicist (1916–2004)
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2010-06-17T21:15:25Z
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2024-09-09T18:32:22Z
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