Emil Wolf, Pioneer of Optical Physics, Dies at 95
NEWINGTON, Conn., June 6, 2018 — Emil Wolf, a pioneer in optical physics, died on June 2. He was 95. Wolf, the Wilson Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Rochester, where he had taught and worked for nearly 60 years, cowrote with Nobel laureate Max Born the most cited textbook in physics, Principles of Optics (1958). His book Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (1995), written with Len Mandel, is also considered a modern classic. Born July 30, 1922, Wolf fled his native city of Prague and the occupying Nazis,...