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NYE, John was born on February 26, 1923 in Hove. Son of Haydn Percival and Jessie Mary (née Hague) Nye.
(First published in 1957, this classic study has been reis...)
First published in 1957, this classic study has been reissued in a paperback version that includes an additional chapter bringing the material up to date. The author formulates the physical properties of crystals systematically in tensor notation, presenting tensor properties in terms of their common mathematical basis and the thermodynamic relations between them. The mathematical groundwork is laid in a discussion of tensors of the first and second ranks. Tensors of higher ranks and matrix methods are then introduced as natural developments of the theory. A similar pattern is followed in discussing thermodynamic and optical aspects.
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(A new kind of optics has grown up during the last 25 year...)
A new kind of optics has grown up during the last 25 years. Geometrical optics has been studied for centuries (the law of reflection was known to the ancient Greeks) and wave optics (heralded by Huygens' Treatise on Light) has been studied for more than 300 years. But in the mid 1970s it began to be understood that when natural processes focus light, as when sunlight is reflected from the sea at sunset, the light caustics that are produced have a systematic behavior previously unrecognized. Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light: Caustics and Wave Dislocations provides a definitive account of how classical optics has been reconstructed in a modern way by emphasizing the hierarchy of singularities that exists in light fields. The book discusses the singularities of geometrical optics and their systematization by catastrophe theory. It explores the diffraction patterns associated with caustics that are dominated by wave dislocations, line singularities of the phase, and analogous to crystal dislocations. The book is a perfect blend of mathematics and physics, combining theory, computer simulation, and beautiful experimental photographs of the phenomena studied.
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NYE, John was born on February 26, 1923 in Hove. Son of Haydn Percival and Jessie Mary (née Hague) Nye.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1948.
Researcher Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1944-1949. University demonstrator in mineralogy & petrology Cambridge University, 1949-1951. With Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey, 1952-1953.
Lecturer University Bristol, England, 1953, reader England, 1965, professor physics England, 1969-1985, Melville Wills professor physics England, 1985-1988, emeritus professor England, since 1988. Visiting professor California Institute of Technology, 1959, Yale University, 1964, University Washington, 1973.
(First published in 1957, this classic study has been reis...)
(A new kind of optics has grown up during the last 25 year...)
Author: Physical Properties of Crystals, 1957, review edition, 1985, Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light, 1999. Contributor articles on physics of crystals, glaciology, optics, microwaves and applications of catastrophe theory to science journals.
Of Technology Staff, Bel! Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey 1952-1953. Royal Swedish Academy, of Sciences 1977.
Gardening.
Married Georgiana Wiebenson in 1953.