Florin Abelès
French engineer
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Florin Abelès (October 20, 1922 – April 12, 2005)[1] was a French physicist who specialized in optics.
Education Ecole Supérieure d'Optique
AwardsPrix Louis Ancel, CEK Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America
Florin Abelès | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 20, 1922 |
| Died | April 12, 2005 (aged 82) |
| Education | Ecole Supérieure d'Optique |
| Awards | Prix Louis Ancel, CEK Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
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]
