Eugene Hecht (born 2 December 1938 in New York City) is an American physicist and author of a standard work in optics.
[2] The elusive nature of a universal definition of energy was argued by Hecht in a letter to the editor of The Physics Teacher in 2004.
[8] In 1975 Hecht wrote the text Theory and Problems of Optics for Schaum's Outlines.
Brooks/Cole published Physics:Calculus in 1996 in which reviewers "found something intriguing on every page".
[9] Hecht contributed to a celebration[10] of potter George Ohr after his workshop was consumed in fire.