florin, abelès, october, 1922, april, 2005, french, physicist, specialized, optics, born, 1922, october, 1922galați, romaniadiedapril, 2005, 2005, aged, paris, francenationalityfrencheducationecole, supérieure, optiqueawardsprix, louis, ancel, mees, medal, fro. Florin Abeles October 20 1922 April 12 2005 1 was a French physicist specialized in optics Florin AbelesBorn 1922 10 20 October 20 1922Galați RomaniaDiedApril 12 2005 2005 04 12 aged 82 Paris FranceNationalityFrenchEducationEcole Superieure d OptiqueAwardsPrix Louis Ancel CEK Mees Medal from the Optical Society of AmericaScientific careerFieldsPhysicsIn his 1949 doctoral thesis Abeles developed a transfer matrix formalism to compute the transmission and reflection of light by thin dielectric layers When Lyman G Parratt performed the first x ray reflectometry experiment in 1954 he developed an equivalent recursion method Nowadays Abeles matrices or Parratt recursion are exchangeably used in investigations of multilayers by x ray reflectometry neutron reflectometry or ellipsometry In 1969 Abeles founded the journal Optics Communications He served as editor in chief until 1993 2 References edit Book catalogue entry of the Bibliotheque nationale de France Obituary Florin Abeles Optics amp Photonics News September 2005 41 Retrieved 3 April 2017 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Florin Abeles amp oldid 1070458931, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
