Optical Society (London)

Short description: Scientific society

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

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]

## See also

* Optical Society of America

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1464-4258/1/S/301/pdf. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Howard, John N. (May 2002). "The Story of a Sister Society In London". Optics & Photonics News: 14–15. https://www.optica-opn.org/opn/media/Images/PDFs/1284_2259_12558.pdf?ext=.pdf.

## External links

* Transactions of the Optical Society

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