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Rayces taking the first pictures with the
“solid cat” at Dana Point Beach, CA in 1975. |
Rayces' list of honors and awards include SPIE's 2004 A.E. Conrady
Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to design,
construction, and testing of optical systems and instrumentation, and
for lifetime dedication to the art and science of optical design.
He studied technical optics under Professor Louis Martin (who succeeded
A. E. Conrady) at Imperial College in London (London, UK), graduating
in 1948. Rayces emigrated from his native Argentina in 1951. His
distinguished career in lens design has included two stints with
Perkin-Elmer (Norwalk, CT, and Costa Mesa, CA) totaling nearly 24
years. After retirement, he continued to work as a consultant while
mentoring and helping students and professionals in the United States
and around the world.
In a 2004 interview with SPIE (see link below), Rayces reminisced about
his design for an "upside-down periscope" used on the Mercury space
capsule, and later work on the Hubble corrective optics. Rayces said
that he cherished his contacts with former students, and that whenever
he heard from them, it was "every time a tremendous thrill…The
mentioning of my help in their PhD theses, are the most cherished
mementoes of my professional life."
| More information |
Out
of this World: From telescope lenses to extraterrestrial periscopes,
Juan L. Rayces discusses his career of innovative lens design.
(oemagazine article in SPIE Newsroom)
http://spie.org/x16987.xml |
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