Emmett Leith

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Emmett Norman Leith (March 12, 1927 in

Detroit, Michigan – December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography
.

Leith received his B.S. in

synthetic aperture radar (SAR) performed while a member of the Radar Laboratory of the University of Michigan's Willow Run Laboratory beginning in 1952. Leith joined the University of Michigan as a research assistant and was promoted to graduate research assistant in 1955, research associate in 1956, research engineer in 1960, associate professor in 1965, and full professor in 1968.[1]

Professor Leith and his coworker Juris Upatnieks at the

Optical Society of America
in 1964.

Honors and awards

He received the 1960

OSA
.

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