Which Czech born American physicist was the author of several works on optics and edited the a series of books called, Progress in Optics?
Emil Wolf Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is a Czech born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. He is also the author of several works on optics.
Mark Buchanan Mark Buchanan (born October 31, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science "Nature", and the popular science magazine "New Scientist". He has been a guest columnist for the "New York Times", and currently writes a monthly column for the journal "Nature Physics".