Facts: - known for: optical society of america - caption: perley g. nutting - citizenship: u s a - fields: physics - workplaces: eastman kodak company westinghouse united states geological survey - name: perley g. nutting - image size: 120 - image: perleynutting.jpg - alma mater: stanford cornell university ph.d. . university b.a. university of california , berkeley m.a. Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of perley g. nutting .
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perley gilman nutting -lrb- 1873 -- 1949 -rrb- was the founder of the optical society of america -lrb- osa -rrb- and served as its first president from 1916-1917 .osa is now known as the optical society .a graduate of stanford university -lrb- b.a. 1897 -rrb- , the university of california , berkeley -lrb- m.a. 1899 -rrb- and cornell university -lrb- ph.d. 1903 -rrb- , nutting joined the u.s. bureau of standards as a physicist in 1903 .it is claimed that in 1904 , nutting constructed one of the earliest , if not the first , neon sign , which was displayed at the 1904 louisiana purchase exposition ; however , this story has been disputed .in 1910 , nutting joined the staff of eastman kodak company and was the author of the 1912 book '' outlines of applied optics '' , which called for an increased level of academic study in the applied optics field .in 1915 , nutting convened a series of meetings among rochester , new york -- based physicists that resulted in the founding of the osa in january 1916 .nutting moved from kodak to westinghouse in 1917 .in 1924 he returned to government work , moving to the united states geological survey where he remained until his retirement in 1943 .nutting 's son , perley g. nutting jr. , was the tireless grad student known as observer pgn for the demonstration of the macadam ellipse .