(1807 – 1891)

Inventor, physicist, mathematician. One of the founders of Photography.

 His outstanding work allowed for construction of modern cameras and made practical portrait-photography possible. He is considered to be one of the founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography.

Invented: the photographic objective lens, the darkroom, the opera glass; perfected the telescope.

Credited with: Discovery of the Laplace transform and other extensive work on aberration in optical lenses.