Richard Sillitto

Richard M. Sillitto
Born1923 (1923)
Lockerbie, Scotland
DiedApril 19, 2005(2005-04-19) (aged 81–82)
Dunbar, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
FieldsOptical physics
WorkplacesUniversity of Edinburgh

Richard Malcolm Sillitto (3 March 1923 – 19 April 2005) was an optical physicist who wrote a useful text on quantum mechanics. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Institute of Physics as well as a past president of the Scottish branch of the Institute of Physics. Sillitto was reader and Reader Emeritus in the physics department of the University of Edinburgh.

Sillitto was born in Lockerbie, the son of George Sillitto. He attended Dumfries Academy.[1] During World War II he worked for the Admiralty Signals and Radar Establishment at Haslemere. After the war, he pursued advanced studies in optical physics at the University of Edinburgh.[2]

Sillitto married Winifred McMillan, an engineer, in 1947.[3] They had a son. Sillitto died in Dunbar in 2005, at the age of 82.[2]

Publications

Textbooks

  • Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, (1967), Publ. Edinburgh UP, ISBN 0-85224-128-3
  • Geometrical and Physical Optics, Longman Higher Education, ISBN 0-582-08880-1

Articles

  • "The Measurement of Small Errors in 90° Prisms" (1947)[4]
  • "Correlation between Events in Photon Detectors" (1957)[5]
  • "Light waves, radio waves and photons" (1960)[6]
  • "Two-point Resolution Criteria in Partially Coherent Imaging" (1973, with Eric C. Kintner)[7]
  • "A New 'Analytic' Method for Computing the Optical Transfer Function" (1976, with Eric C. Kintner)[8]
  • "Edge-ringing in Partially Coherent Imaging" (1977, with Eric C. Kintner)[9]
  • "Development of a spatial light modulator: a randomly addressed liquid-crystal-over-nMOS array" (1989, with Douglas J. McKnight and David G. Vass)[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Bursaries for Academy Pupils". Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 29 May 1940. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 "Obituary: Richard Sillitto". East Lothian Courier. 6 May 2005. p. 15. Retrieved 19 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Sillitto-McMillan". Belfast Telegraph. 18 September 1947. p. 1. Retrieved 19 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Sillitto, Richard M. (April 1947). "The Measurement of Small Errors in 90 Prisms". Journal of Scientific Instruments. 24 (4): 107–107. doi:10.1088/0950-7671/24/4/412. ISSN 0950-7671.
  5. ↑ Sillitto, Richard M. (June 1957). "Correlation between Events in Photon Detectors". Nature. 179 (4570): 1127–1128. doi:10.1038/1791127a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
  6. ↑ Sillitto, Richard M (May 1960). "Light waves, radio waves and photons". Physics Bulletin. 11 (5): 129–134. doi:10.1088/0031-9112/11/5/001. ISSN 0031-9112.
  7. ↑ Kintner, Eric C.; Sillitto, Richard M. (September 1973). "Two-point Resolution Criteria in Partially Coherent Imaging". Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics. 20 (9): 721–728. doi:10.1080/713818815. ISSN 0030-3909.
  8. ↑ Kintner, Eric C.; Sillitto, Richard M. (1 August 1976). "A New 'Analytic' Method for Computing the Optical Transfer Function". Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics. 23 (8): 607–619. doi:10.1080/713819333. ISSN 0030-3909.
  9. ↑ Kintner, Eric C.; Sillitto, Richard M. (May 1977). "Edge-ringing in Partially Coherent Imaging". Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics. 24 (5): 591–605. doi:10.1080/713819597. ISSN 0030-3909.
  10. ↑ McKnight, Douglas J.; Vass, David G.; Sillitto, Richard M. (15 November 1989). "Development of a spatial light modulator: a randomly addressed liquid-crystal-over-nMOS array". Applied Optics. 28 (22): 4757. doi:10.1364/AO.28.004757. ISSN 0003-6935.


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