Background
Stephen Anthony Benton was born in 1941 in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Stephen Anthony Benton
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Education
Benton studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1963, and at Harvard University, where he received a PhD in Applied Physics in 1968.
Career
Benton worked with the Polaroid Corporation from 1961 to 1974, during which time (1968-73) he was also an assistant professor with the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Since 1974 he has been working with Polaroid in their research laboratories, doing three-dimensional photography, especially in practical forms of holography.
He has been issued three patents, the first in 1972 for his "Method for Making Reduced Bandwidth Holograms," one in 1975 for "Light Filtering Arrangement for Holographic Displays," and another in 1980 for "Production of Volume Dielectric Holograms."
Achievements
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PUBLICATIONS Books: "Photographic Materials and their Handling," Handbook of Optical Holography, H. J. Caulfield, ed. 1979; "White- Light Transmission/Reflection Holographic Imaging," Applications of Holography and Optical Data Processing, E. Marom & A. A. Friesem, eds., 1977; "Prospects for Quasi-Holographic Three-Dimensional Displays in the Biomedical Sciences," Holography in Medicine, P. Greguss, ed., 1975. Periodicals: "Achromatic Images from White-Light Transmission Holograms" & "Distortions in Cylindrical Holographic Stereogram Images," Oct 1978, "Intra-Emulsion Diffusion-Transfer Processing of Volume Dielectric Holo-grams," Oct 1974, "On the Perception of Gradients of Retinal Disparity," Apr 1974, "Granularity Effects in Phase Holograms." "Properties of Granularity Wiener Spectra," W/ R. E. Kronauer, Apr 1971, "Multiple-Lens Parallax Panoramagraphy," Apr 1970, "Hologram Reconstructions with Extended Incoherent Sources," Oct 1969, "A Noise Analysis of Grainy Emulsions," W/R. E. Kronauer, Oct 1966, fournal for the Optical Society of America; "Approximations for Granularity Theory," Photographic Science and Engineering, July/Aug 1977; "Ho-lography - The Second Decade," Optics News, summer 1977; "Holographic Displays - A Review," Sept/Oct 1975, "Simplified Talbot Interferometers for Lens Testing," Optical Engineering, July/Aug 1976; "Silhouette Holograms Without Vertical Parallax," Applied Optics, Dec 1970.
Membership
A director-at-large of the Optical Society of America from 1977 to 1979, Benton was a member of the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE), the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the New York Academy of Science.
