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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Joseph B. Keller

Title:

Professor of Mathematics & Mechanical Engineering

Affiliation:

Stanford University

Stanford,California 94305 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2016

Award Discipline:

Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Award Year:

1988

Citation:

"For his outstanding contribution to the geometrical theory of diffraction. This is a major extension of geometrical optics which succeeds, after many centuries, in adding the physics of diffraction to the simple ray concepts of optics and of other wave motions."

Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.

 

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