Alvin Marks & Edwin Land
June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »The obituaries of the New York Times of June 1 noted the death of Alvin Marks at 97 years of age. As I have previously written, it was Dr. Marks’ proposal for “antennas for visible light” that provided the initial inspiration for this work. He seems to have been a man, as the Times noted, of truly “large scale imagination”.
It seems ironic that although some controversy existed between Alvin Marks and Edwin Land about the invention of light polarizers, it is the fundamental antenna insight of Marks that provides the basis for an explanation of Land’s extraordinary color vision experiments!
GCH
6/2/08
