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As a PhD graduate of The Institute of Optics in 1968, Jim Wyant made important technical contributions to the field in academia and industry. His thesis on topics in holography would augur decades of work in interferometric techniques that have been essential in applications from astronomy to computer technology. His journey from a farm in Ohio, to Case Institute of Technology to the University of Rochester, to the Itek Corporation in Boston and of course to the University of Arizona spanned the country and left an indelible print on the history of optics and The Institute itself. Throughout many years, even as he committed time to the University of Arizona, the OSA and the companies he founded, he continued to support The Institute of Optics through our summer short course program, through advice, and through generous support of professorships and programs at the University of Rochester.
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