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    Emmett Leith

    Q&A with entrepreneur, philanthropist, and alum Dr. B. Jin Chang

    After graduating from U-M where he worked with Prof. Emmett Leith, Dr. Chang founded SurgiTel, which provides dental professionals and surgeons with ergonomic vision-aide products.

    Dr. Jim and Judith Seydel’s gifts to ECE support students while honoring those who empowered his career

    Seydel shares his memories of the early days of holography at U-M and how former ECE Chair Hansford W. Farris, as well as professors Thomas Senior and Emmet Leith, helped shape his career.

    Emmett Leith (1927 - 2005)

    Inventor of Practical Holography
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