Background
Stephen Anthony Benton was born in 1941 in San Francisco, California, United States.
inventor HOLOGRAPHER PHYSICIST
Stephen Anthony Benton was born in 1941 in San Francisco, California, United States.
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.
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."
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.