# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-wolf
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:19:53.206Z

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name: "Emil Wolf"
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description: "Emil Wolf was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. He was also the author of numerous other contributions to optics."
tagline: "Czech born American physicist (1922-2018)"
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birthDate: "1922-07-30"
deathDate: "2018-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump