Tung H. Jeong

E-mail: jeong@lakeforest.edu

Birth place:Kwangtung, China, 1931 (emigrated to US in 1948)

Education:Yale University, 1957 B.S., physics and mathematics University of innesota,
1962, Ph.D., nuclear physics

Employment:Lake Forest College (LFC), 1963 –1997, current status: Professor Emeritus
Director, Center for Photonics Studies, Lake Forest College, 1972-1997 Oak Ridge
National Laboratories (isochronous cyclotron), summers, 1963-66

Work: Teaching and research in Physics Department, Lake Forest College, 1963-1997
          Founder and Director of summer LFC international Holography Workshops,
                      1971-1997
          Founder and Director: Triennial International Symposia and Exhibitions on
                       Display Holography, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, and 1997
          Over 700 invited lectures, seminars and workshops around the world
          Consultant to industry and U.S. government (continuing)
          Co-chaired Int’l Soc. For Optical Engineering (SPIE) conferences (Kiev-Ukraine,
                       Tatabana-Hungary, Varna-Bulgaria, Quebec City-Canada, St.
                       Pölten-Austria, others)

         Founder:1986, the annual SPIE Practical Holography Conference
          Founder: Integraf LLC (1973) to distribute instructions and holographic materials
                        internationally (http://www.integraf.com)
          Motion picture (1971) “Introduction to Holography” sponsored by Encyclopedia
                       Britannica Educational Corporation
          Research Grants: National Science Foundation, Research Corporation, Gaertner
                        Scientific Corp., Abbott Laboratories, ITW, others

Honors:Robert Millikan Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers (1976)
           Thomas Alva Edison Lectureship, National Science Teachers’ Association (1986)
           CNN interview (1997)
           Fellow: Optical Society of America (1972)
           Optical Society of America – appointed Traveling Lecturer
           Honorary Professor of Physics: Beijing Normal University, Kunming University
           Progress Medal Award, Photographic Society of America (1999) for contributions
                        to three-dimensional imaging
           Saxby Medal, Royalty Photographic Society of Great Britain (London, 2000) for
                         Contributions to technical imaging
           Life Time Achievement Award, International Holographic Manufacturers’
                        Association (Lisbon, Portugal, 2000)
           Keynote speaker at the annual international conference of the International
                        Hologram Manufacturers’ Association in November 2005, in China
           Co-chair: Seventh Lake Forest Int’l Symposium on Display Holography at St.
                      Asaph, North Wales
         Chairman: Eighth International Symposium on Display Holography, Shenzen,
                         China, July 13-17, 2009

Hobbies: Windsurfing, skiing, reading, and violin

LFC-Holofacts Sheet

British-Hungarian Dennis Gabor discovered holography in 1944 and was award the Physics Nobel Prize in 1971.

Lake Forest College’s involvement in holography began in 1964. Jeong, working with freshmen students Paul Rudolf and Arleigh Luckett, invented the 360 degree hologram in 1966. Dennis Gabor hired Rudolf immediately upon his graduation from LFC.

Yashahiro Moriuchi, VP of Hitachi of Japan, recipient of 2008 honorary degree from LFC, was Jeong’s assistant after Rudolf.

Current applications of holograms:

Full color and full parallax computer generated motion holograms for displays

Security for credit cards, product authentification for paper currency, passports, etc.

Real time manipulations of microbes (called holographic optical tweezers) using multiple beams through transparent media such as walls of living cells. These beams are created by a real-time hologram.

Free-space interconnects for wireless chip-to-chip communication.

High capacity information storage and fast data transfer

Optical computing using holograms as parts of electro-optical chips

Virtual keyboard for computers as seen through holographic glasses

Personal 3-D television using two-channel simulcast seen through holographic glasses

Deep field lensless holographic microscopy

Education: teaching children how to make holograms introduces them to all the basic concepts of optical physics and information technology

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