Technical Terms
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another
What is refraction?
This scientist showed that white light is made of a spectrum of colors by passing it through a prism.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This key imaging technology, which utilizes the interaction of light with tissue to produce high-resolution, cross-sectional images, became widely used in ophthalmology for early detection of eye diseases.
What is optical coherence tomography (OCT)?
What is biomedical engineering?
This term describes the distance from the center of a lens to its focal point.
What is focal length?
This ancient Greek is often credited with early theories of vision and wrote "Optics," exploring how we perceive light.
Who is Euclid?
The natural production of light by chemical reactions within an organism.
What is bioluminesence?
Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University joined together to form CWRU in this year.
What is 1967?
This phenomenon occurs when light waves overlap and combine to form a new wave pattern.
What is interference?
This 11th-century Arab scientist wrote the Book of Optics and laid the groundwork for the modern scientific method.
Who is Alhazen
This fluorescent protein, originally found in jellyfish, revolutionized molecular imaging in living cells.
What is green fluorescent protein (GFP)?
This popular email service was developed by a CWRU graduate.
This term describes the spreading of a light wave as it passes through a narrow aperture or around an obstacle.
What is diffraction?
In 1960, this American scientist invented the first functional laser.
Who is Theodore Maiman?
This pigment absorbs light primarily in the blue and red wavelengths, playing a key role in converting light energy into chemical energy.
What is Chlorophyll?
This Nobel Prize-winning scientist, known for his pioneering work in cell biology, is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University.
Who is Paul Berg
Laser is the acronym for these words.
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
This British-born scientist is best known for her developments of X-ray crystallography and study of the molecular structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This type of vision, as opposed to photopic vision, helps bats see in low light?
The Michelson-Morely experiments were conducted in the basement of this now demolished building?
What is Adelbert Dormitory?