The History of OSA
Missing Links in OSA’s Archives
As OSA approaches it centennial in 2016, its staff and volunteers are working to compile a comprehensive history of the organization. While we are gathering much information, there are still a few elusive missing photos and biographies.
In just another five years, the Optical Society will celebrate its centennial: One hundred years since that day in December 1916 when 30 optics workers met in a classroom at Columbia University and voted to form an Optical Society. Hilda Kingslake, in her detailed history of the first 50 years of OSA, lists each of those original members, along with their birth dates and death dates (where applicable); that history was published in the March 1966 issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA).
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