Background
Hemmendinger, Henry was born on April 1, 1915 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, United States. Son of Max and Jeannette (Harris) Hemmendinger.
Hemmendinger, Henry was born on April 1, 1915 in Bernardsville, New Jersey, United States. Son of Max and Jeannette (Harris) Hemmendinger.
AB, Harvard University, 1935; AM, Harvard University, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1939.
Hemmendinger"s work in color standardization and measurement established him as one of the world"s preeminent experts in color science. After graduating from Harvard and Princeton, Hemmendinger joined the United States. Navy and worked in submarine warfare research. After the war, both men worked in general physics at General Aniline & Film Corporation, where they became increasingly interested in colorimetry and color theory.
Their first contribution to the field was their development of the Automatic Tristimulus Integrator, the first device to enable rapid automatic measurement of XYZ values of the color spectrum.
In 1952 Hemmendinger and Davidson left General Aniline & Film to form Davidson and Hemmendinger. Their first successful product was a colorant-mixture analog computer, COMIC, introduced in 1958, the first automated color matching system.
Hemmendinger also evaluated colors for the Munsell books, and his contributions are still used as standards. In 1967, Hemmendinger and Davidson developed COMIC II, a digital version of their earlier color matching computer.
Shortly after this, their company was sold to Kollmorgen and combined with their Macbeth Instrument Development Laboratories.
Hemmendinger left Kollmorgen in 1970 and formed the Hemmendinger Color Laboratory, a consulting firm specializing in colorimetric and spectrophotometric standards. His companies were frequently the only United States. supplier of calibrated color materials used to evaluate color measurement instruments. Selected publications M. J. American
West. Doctorate.
Fellow Optical Society of America. Member American Society for Testing and Materials, Inter-Society Color. Council, Council Radiation Measurements, International Commission on Illumination (life, United States national com), Inter-Society Color Council (honorary, Godlove award 1998).
Married Miriam Regina Simon, 1940 (deceased 1981). Children: David, Carol, Mark. Married Sylvia Engel Crane, 1985.