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unusual facts about Optical Society of America



Alfred Norton Goldsmith

Goldsmith was also a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Rocket Society, the Institution of Radio Engineers, Australia, the International College of Surgeons, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Optical Society of America, and was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London).

Color model

Other important color systems include the Swedish Natural Color System (NCS) from the Scandinavian Color Institute, the Optical Society of America's Uniform Color Space (OSA-UCS), and the Hungarian Coloroid system developed by Antal Nemcsics from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Denis Hall

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the UK Institute of Physics, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America.

Satoshi Kawata

He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Physics (IOP), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).


see also

Arthur Hardy

Arthur C. Hardy, president of the Optical Society of America, 1935–1936

Ralph Sawyer

Ralph A. Sawyer, American optician and former president of the Optical Society of America

Richard Abrams

Richard L. Abrams, president of the Optical Society of America in 1990

Richard Powell

Richard C. Powell, president of the Optical Society of America in 2000

Robert Hopkins

Robert E. Hopkins, Past President of the Optical Society of America

Robert Madden

Robert P. Madden, president of the Optical Society of America in 1982

Warren Smith

Warren J. Smith (1922–2008), president of the Optical Society of America, 1980

William Forsythe

William E. Forsythe (1881–?), president of the Optical Society of America