Which Czech born American physicist was the author of several works on optics and edited the a series of books called, Progress in Optics?
Progress in Optics Progress in Optics are a series of books edited by Emil Wolf published by Elsevier. They consist of collections of already published review articles deemed to be representative of the advances made in the fields of optics.
Mark Novotny Mark A. Novotny is an American physicist currently a W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and also American Physical Society for "original algorithm development and applications of computational statistical mechanics to equilibrium and non-equilibrium problems in condensed-matter physics and materials science".