The Physics of Marketing — Fraunhofer Diffraction

Joseph von Fraun­hofer lived a short, dif­fi­cult life, but that did not stop him from becom­ing one of the world’s most tal­ented mak­ers of opti­cal glass and an expert on the dis­per­sion of light.  Accord­ing to Wikipedia, he was orphaned at age 11.  Fraun­hofer then went to work as an appren­tice for a glass maker.  […]