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About David D Nolte
David D. Nolte is the Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. His research pioneered the development of the BioCD and dynamic-contrast optical coherence tomography (DC-OCT). His latest book in Interference: The History of Optical Interferometry and the Scientists who Tamed Light (Oxford University Press, 2023). His previous book is Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything (Oxford University Press , 2018) is on the history and physics of dynamics, topics on which he blogs regularly. He received his baccalaureate from Cornell University, his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and had a post-doctoral appointment at AT&T Bell Labs before joining the faculty at Purdue. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the AAAS. He received the Herbert Newby McCoy Award of Purdue University and is the technical founder of two biotech startup companies in diagnostic screening and analysis.
Present | Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Biomedical Optics and Optoelectronics
Honors and Awards
- EM Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics (2015)
- Fellow of the AAAS (2012)
- McCoy Award (2005)
- Fellow of the APS (2003)
- Fellow of the OSA (1997)
Courses
- Modern Dynamics
1981 - 1988 | Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley ‐ Physics | |
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1977 - 1981 | B. A., Cornell University ‐ Physics | |
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