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We are honored to have as a
graduate in our class, the distinguished
Dr. Tung Hon
"Sunne" Jeong, recently inducted
into the Amarillo High School "Sandie
Hall of Fame"...
Dr.
Jeong, born on December 19, 1935 in
Guangdong, China, came to the United
States in 1948. He received B.S. in
physics and mathematics from Yale
University in 1957 and a doctorate in
nuclear physics from the University of
Minnesota in 1962. After one year as
research associate in physics at the
University of Minnesota, he joined the
faculty of Lake Forest College in 1963 and
became A.B. Dick Professor of Physics and
chairman of the Department of Physics in
1973 until he retired as professor
emeritus in 1997
In
addition to teaching, Dr. Jeong was
Director, Center for Photonics Studies,
Oak Ridge National Laboratories (summers,
1963-66); co-chaired SPIE conferences
(Kiev, Tatábanya, Varna, Quebec City,
St.Pölten); and has served as consultant
to industry and U.S. government: Gaertmer
Science Corp., Abbott Laboratory, Zenith
Electronics Corp., Caterpillar Tractor,
and McDonald's Corp. He is also founder,
SPIE Practical Holography sessions; and
founder and president, INTEGRAF, a
distributor of instructions and
holographic materials.
 Dr. Jeong's
research interest includes
precision-nuclear elastic scattering,
linear proton accelerator injector,
optics, lasers and holography, and laser
applications and holography. An authority
on holography, he conducted over 500
invited lectures, seminars and workshops
around the world, including Summer LFC
Holography Workshops (1971-1997),
Triennial International Symposia and
Exhibitions on Display Holography (1982,
1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, and 1997), and
contributed many scholarly works, such as Holography,
New Window to the Future (1971), Introduction
to Holography (motion picture, 1971),
and Proceedings of International.
Symposium on Display Holography (ed.,
1982, 1985).
Dr. Jeong
received many awards and honors: best
paper award, Society of Information
Display (1973), Robert Millikin Medal,
American Association of Physics Teachers
(1976), Sonntag Foundation grantee (1968),
McDonald's Corp. grantee (1985), Thomas
Alva Edison Lectureship, National Science
Teachers' Association (1986), Progress
Medal Award, Photographic Society of
America (1999); Saxby Medal, Royalty
Photographic Society of Great Britain
(2000), and Life Time Achievement Award,
International Holographic Manufacturers'
Association (Lisbon, Portugal, 2000);
Fellow, Optical Society of America; and
research grants from National Science
Foundation, Research Corporation, Gaertner
Scientific Corp., Abbott Laboratories, and
ITW.
Dr. Jeong
is a member, Society of Photo-Optical
Instrument Engineers, American Physics
Society, American Association of Physics
Teachers (president, Midwest Chapter,
1972-73), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor
Society (president 1983-84). Article courtesy of
"Who's Who in America"
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The
2000 Saxby Medal is presented to
Prof Tung Hon Jeong by Austin
Mitchell, Member of Parliament and
Chairman of the Parliamentary
Photography Group of the Royal
Photographic Society of Great
Britain
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The
PSAP medal is presented to Tung Hon
Jeong, Professor, Emeritus,
Department of Physics, Lake Forest
College by Pauline Sweezey,
President of the Photography Society
of America
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