Florin Abelès

Florin Abelès (October 20, 1922 – April 12, 2005)[1] was a French physicist, specialized in optics.

Florin Abelès
Born(1922-10-20)October 20, 1922
Galati, Romania
DiedApril 12, 2005(2005-04-12) (aged 82)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Education Ecole Supérieure d'Optique
AwardsPrix Louis Ancel, CEK Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

In his 1949 doctoral thesis, Abelès developed a transfer-matrix formalism to compute the transmission and reflection of light by thin dielectric layers. When Lyman G. Parratt performed the first x-ray reflectometry experiment in 1954, he developed an equivalent recursion method. Nowadays, Abelès matrices or Parratt recursion are exchangeably used in investigations of multilayers by x-ray reflectometry, neutron reflectometry, or ellipsometry.

In 1969, Abelès founded the journal Optics Communications. He served as editor-in-chief until 1993.[2]

References
  1. Book catalogue entry of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. "Obituary : Florin Abelès". Optics & Photonics News. September 2005: 41. Retrieved 3 April 2017. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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