Robert Clark Jones

Robert Clark Jones
Born June 30, 1916(1916-06-30)
Toledo (Ohio)
Died April 26, 2004(2004-04-26) (aged 87)
Residence U.S.
Nationality
Fields Physicist
Known for Jones calculus
Notable awards

Adolph-Lomb Medal of the OSA (1941)
Frederic Ives Medal of the OSA (1972)
Dennis Gabor Award of the SPIE (1989)

G. G. Stokes Award of the SPIE (2004)

R. Clark Jones (June 30, 1916 – April 26, 2004) was an American physicist working in the field of Optics.

He studied at Harvard University and received his PhD in 1941. Until 1944 he worked at the Bell Labs, later until 1982 with the Polaroid Corporation.

In a sequence of publications between 1941 and 1956 he demonstrated a mathematical model to describe the polarization of coherent light, the Jones calculus.

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