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Bennett received her Doctor of Philosophy in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1955, and spent most of her career at the Naval Weapons Center (now the Naval Air Warfare Center) at China Lake, California.
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Jean Bennett
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She died on July 18, 2008 in Ridgecrest, California after a long illness. She was 78. She received the David Richardson Medal from the Optical Society of America (The Optical Society) in 1990, after serving as The Optical Society president in 1986. In 1994 she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Naval Weapons Center.
In 1988 the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology established the Jean Bennett Award, given annually to a senior for excellence in optics.
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