William "Will" Happer (born July 27, 1939) is an American physicist who has specialized in the study of atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy.
 He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, and a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, where he pioneered the development of adaptive optics.
 From 1991 to 1993, Happer served as director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science as part of the George HW Bush administration.
Progress in Optics are a series of books edited by Emil Wolf published by Elsevier.
 They consist of collections of already published review articles deemed to be representative of the advances made in the fields of optics.
Charles Sheldon Hastings (November 27, 1848 – January 31, 1932) was an American physicist known for his work in optics.
 His father was Panet Marshall Hastings and his mother was Jane Sheldon Hastings.
 The father was a physician and anatomy teacher at Hamilton College, New York, where Charles was born.
 At the age of six the family moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where Charles received his early education.
 Hastings entered Yale University's Sheffield School of Science in 1867 and received his bachelor's degree in 1870.
 His early interest in astronomy and telescopes were likely due to Chester Lyman, Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the Sheffield School.
 He then earned a PhD from Yale in 1873, and immediately was made an instructor in physics.
 In 1875 he resigned to study in Germany and France until being named an associate at the new Johns Hopkins University in 1876.
 He became an associate professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University and the first Chair of Professor of Physics of Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University.
 He collaborated with John A. Brashear on the optical design of large telescopes including the 72 in reflector at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and the 30 in photographic refractor at Allegheny Observatory.
 His optical designs enabled much progress in astronomy at U.S. observatories.
 The Hastings Triplet magnifying glass design is based on his optical formulae.
 He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1926.
Gareth P. Jones is a British children's writer, and author of the Dragon Detective Agency series of books.
 He is most famous for his comic-gothic book, "The Considine Curse", which won the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2012 and for "The Thornthwaite Inheritance".
 He also writes a series of books called Ninja Meerkats.
 His most recent book is called "Constable & Toop" and is a Victorian ghost story set in London, 1884.
 [Update: His most recent book is now "The Society of Thirteen".]
 As well as being an author, Gareth works as a TV producer.
Craig F. Bohren (born 1940) - American atmospheric scientist and physicist.
 Bohren wrote fundamental books on light scattering, atmospheric thermodynamics, and radiative transfer, as well as popular science books on atmospheric optics.
 He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University.
 He is an author of about 100 articles mostly on atmospheric optics, radiative transfer, and light scattering.
 His first atmospheric radiation teacher was Bruce Barkstrom.
 He is married to Nanette Malott Bohren.
Emil Wolf (born July 30, 1922) is 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 is also the author of several works on optics.
Robert William Boyd (born 8 March 1948) is an American physicist noted for his work in optical physics and especially in nonlinear optics.
 He is currently Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and on the Faculty at the University of Rochester.
Yuen-Ron Shen (沈元壤) is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on non-linear optics.
 He was born in Shanghai and graduated from National Taiwan University.
 He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard under physicist and Nobel Laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen in 1963, and joined the department of physics at Berkeley in 1964.
 In the early years, Dr. Shen was probably best known for his work on self-focusing and filament propagation of laser beams in materials.
 These fundamental studies enabled the creation of ultrafast supercontinuum light sources.
 In the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with Yuan T. Lee on the study of multiphoton dissociation of molecular clusters.
 The molecular-beam photofragmentation translational spectroscopy that they developed has clarified much of the initial confusion concerning the dynamics of infrared multiphoton dissociation processes.
 In the 1980s and 1990s, Professor Shen developed various nonlinear optics methods for the study of material surfaces and interfaces.
 Among these techniques, second-harmonic generation and sum frequency generation spectroscopy are best known and now widely used by scientists from various fields.
 He has collaborated with Gabor Somorjai on the use of the technique of Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy to study catalyst surfaces.
 He is the author of the book "The Principles of Nonlinear Optics".
 Professor Shen belongs to the prolific J. J. Thomson academic lineage tree.
 Currently, Professor Shen works in U. C. Berkeley and Fudan University in Shanghai.
Ortwin Hess (born 1966) is a German-born theoretical physicist at Imperial College London (UK), working in condensed matter optics.
 Bridging condensed matter theory and quantum optics he specialises in nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials and semiconductor laser dynamics.
 Since the late 1980s he has been an author and coauthor of over 300 peer-reviewed articles, the most popular of which, called Trapped rainbow' storage of light in metamaterials", was cited more than 400 times.
 He pioneered active (gain enhanced) nanoplasmonics and metamaterials with quantum gain and in 2014 he introduced the "stopped-light lasing" principle as a novel route to cavity-free (nano-) lasing and localisation of amplified surface plasmon polaritons, giving him an h-index of 33.
Jonathan Harris Orloff (b. 1942) is an American physicist, author and professor.
 Born in New York City, he is the eldest son of Monford Orloff and brother of pianist Carole Orloff and historian Chester Orloff.
 Professor Orloff is known for his major fields of research in charged particle optics, applications of field emission processes, high brightness electron and ion sources, focused ion and electron beams and their applications for micromachining, surface analysis and microscopy and Instrumentation development for semiconductor device manufacturing.

Question: Which Czech born American physicist was the author of several works on optics and edited the a series of books called, Progress in Optics?
Answer: Emil Wolf