The History of OSA
Presidential Profile: Arthur Francis Turner
Arthur Francis Turner was OSA’s 1968 President and a pioneer in the field of optical interference coatings. He earned many accolades for his work, including a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Arthur Francis Turner was born in Detroit, Mich., U.S.A., on 8 August 1906. He received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berlin, Germany, in 1935. Turner continued his studies in Berlin with Peter Pringsheim and Marianus Czerny. It is said that Czerny was the last doctoral student of the celebrated experimental physicist H. Rubens, thus making Turner a direct link to the beginnings of quantum mechanics and the studies of blackbody radiation by Lummer and Pringsheim.
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