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