2012 Ernest Fox Nichols Distinguished Lecture
Bob Woodruff
B.S. in Physics (1964) from Kansas State University
An Inquiring Mind in Search of Phun from Fysics
October 15, 2012
4:30 pm
Leadership Studies, Town Hall
As someone who was inspired to become a physicist by a first year teacher in high school, Bob Woodruff will discuss his ensuing career in designing space optical systems. He will describe in some detail two examples of opportunities a physics education presented him: “fixing” the Hubble Space Telescope spherical aberration problem and the optical design for Kepler that is currently in orbit detecting extra-solar earth-like planets.