H. John Caulfield (March 25, 1936 – January 31, 2012) was an American physicist who specialized in holography and

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. He was the author of numerous refereed publications, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the SPIE. He was also awarded the SPIE Gold Medal in 2005. Caulfield did research at

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and later became a professor at the

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. Towards the end of his career he taught at Fisk University and at Alabama A&M University.Obituary at OSA
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Oral history interview transcript with H. John Caulfield on 21 January 2003, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American optical physicists Fellows of Optica (society) University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty 1936 births 2012 deaths {{US-physicist-stub