The Story of a Sister Society in London

John N. Howard

Seventeen years before the Optical Society of America was founded in Rochester, New York, a small group of optics buffs in Britain established the Optical Society (London). In the second edition of OPN’s new column, “The History of OSA,” John N. Howard describes the brief but inspiring history of the Optical Society (London), and its journal, Transactions.

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