Emmett Leith

Much of Leith's holographic work was an outgrowth of his research on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) performed while a member of the Radar Laboratory of the University of Michigan's Willow Run Laboratory beginning in 1952.

[1] Professor Leith and his coworker Juris Upatnieks at the University of Michigan displayed three-dimensional hologram at a conference of the Optical Society of America in 1964.

He received the 1960 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award and the Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1969.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter awarded Leith with the National Medal of Science for his research.

Two members of the Benton family from the animated TV series Jem and The Holograms were named after Emmett Leith: Emmett Benton and his adopted daughter, Aja Leith.