Optical Society (London)

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The Optical Society was a scientific society founded in London in 1899, which published Transactions of the Optical Society.

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The Optical Society was founded on 26 October 1899. The first president was W.H.E. Thornthwaite. [1] The founders included Charles Algernon Parsons and Frank Twyman. Its meetings were mostly held at Imperial College London. [2]

In 1932 it merged with the Physical Society of London, [2] becoming the Optical Group of the Physical Society, and later the Optical Group of the Institute of Physics. The Optical Group is a member of the European Optical Society. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Briers, David (1 December 1999). "IOP Optical Group celebrates its centenary" . Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. 1 (S): 747–749. doi:10.1088/1464-4258/1/S/301 . Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 Howard, John N. (May 2002). "The Story of a Sister Society In London" (PDF). Optics & Photonics News: 14–15. doi:10.1364/OPN.13.6.000014.
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