- 1015: Ibn Al Haythem's Book of Optics.
- 1815: Fresnel and the wave nature of light.
- 1915: Einstein's general relativity - light in space and time.
- 1965: Cosmic microwave background; Charles Kao and optical fiber technology.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Let there be a year of light
Happy New Year, readers! DTLR joins in celebrating 2015 as UNESCO's "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies" (IYL 2015). The year 2015 will also be the anniversary of several optics achievements, such as the publication of Maxwell's equations in 1865, celebrated in January's issue of Nature Photonics. The IYL 2015 organizers also point to the following anniversaries:
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