Professor
Robert Willis Hellwarth
(
–
)
1930
2021
University of Southern California
;
Santa Monica, CA
Electrical engineer; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Engineering and Technology
Elected
2006
George T. Pfleger Chair in Electrical Engineering; Professor of Physics. Contributed to early developments in lasers at the Hughes Research Laboratories. Contributor to the new field of photonics and to improving instruments for astronomy. Developed a widely used technique for generating time-reversed replicas of image-bearing optical beams.
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