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Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:19 pm
by Martin

Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:54 pm
by Ed Wesly
Whew! For a moment there I was afraid that this was another RIP!

This guy is truly amazing! He was the inventor of the "Pyrochrome" processing, and his book on Optical Security Techniques is one of those that I am always looking for on Amazon!

Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:56 pm
by Kaveh
Clever guy indeed, and the first to show that the composite refractive index of a mixture of two materials is related not to the refractive index of each, but to the electrical polarizability of each.

Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:18 pm
by JohnFP
Kaveh, do you have more information on this?

Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:44 pm
by Kaveh
John, I probably have the paper on this somewhere, but have to dig it up. He used the "Lorenz-Loretnz" equation (yes, two people!) and his experimental data were amazingly well matched to theory. OK, I think it is this one:

R.L. van Renesse and F.A.J. Bouts, Efficiency of Bleaching Agents for Holography, Optik, Vol. 38, (No. 2), 1973, pp. 156-168.

(Certainly those were the authors.)

If you email van Renesse he can probably send you a pdf.

Rudolf van Renesse

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:57 pm
by vanrenesse
Thanks for your kind words on my early work, folks.
If you need any of my early papers, please drop me an email at ruud_van_renesse at zonnet dot nl
Rudolf van Renesse