John Nelson Howard (February 27, 1921 – April 15, 2015) was president of the Optical Society of America in 1991. He was the founding editor of the scientific journal Applied Optics. Howard was also a chief scientist of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory.
He was a Fellow of the Optical Society and received the OSA Distinguished Service Award in 1987.
In his later years he was a contributing editor to Optics and Photonics News (OPN).
See also
Optical Society of America#Past Presidents of the OSA
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Articles Published by early OSA Presidents Journal of the Optical Society of America
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Tribute at OSA
1921 births
2015 deaths
Optical physicists
Spectroscopists
Fellows of Optica (society) Presidents of Optica (society) American physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society