Hans E. J. Neugebauer was a

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-born

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

and imaging scientist who later lived in the

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and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

.Henry Neugebauer, "Memories of my father," ''SPIE vol. 1184, Neugebauer Memorial Seminar on Color Reproduction.'' Bellingham, WA: International Society for Optical Engineering, 1989. p xi-xv. In his 1935 dissertation,H E J Neugebauer, "Die theoretischen Grundlagen des Mehrfarbenbuchdrucks," ''Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Photographie Photophysik und Photochemie,'' 36:4, 1937. p 73-89. he developed the

Neugebauer equations The Neugebauer equations are a set of equations used to model color printing systems, developed by Hans E. J. Neugebauer. They were intended to predict the color produced by a combination of halftones printed in cyan, magenta, and yellow inks. Th ...

, which have served as the basis for more accurate models for the prediction of

color Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the visual perceptual property deriving from the spectrum of light interacting with the photoreceptor cells of the eyes. Color categories and physical specifications of color are associ ...

produced by

printing Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ea ...

.J A Stephen Viggiano, "Hans E J Neugebauer: a centennial remembrance," ''Proceedings of the 13th IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference.'' Springfield, VA: IS&T, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2005.

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20th-century German physicists Color scientists 1905 births 1987 deaths German emigrants to Canada {{Germany-scientist-stub