death_date birth_place awards birth_date known_for residence article_title name
26 april 2004 toledo -lrb- ohio -rrb- adolph-lomb medal of the osa -lrb- 1941 -rrb- 30 june 1916 jones calculus 20px robert clark jones
 robert clark jones
robert clark jones

r. clark jones -lrb- june 30 , 1916april 26 , 2004 -rrb- was an american physicist working in the field of optics .
he studied at harvard university and received his phd in 1941 .
until 1944 he worked at bell labs , later until 1982 with the polaroid corporation .
in a sequence of publications between 1941 and 1956 he demonstrated a mathematical model to describe the polarization of coherent light , the jones calculus .
