Marcel J. E. Golay

Marcel Jules Edouard Golay (French: [gɔlɛ]; May 3, 1902 – April 27, 1989) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, and information theorist, who applied mathematics to real-world military and industrial problems.

[2] Golay studied electrical engineering at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich.

[3] Golay then joined the US Army Signal Corps, eventually rising to the post of Chief Scientist.

In 1963, Golay joined the Perkin-Elmer company full-time as senior research scientist.

It was during this period when he patented an Analysis of Images, for two-dimensional parallel data processing, and worked to develop the idea, called Golay Logic for Optical Pattern Recognition along with Kendall Preston, Philip Norgren, David Dacava and Joseph Carvalko, Jr.[4] He remained with Perkin-Elmer for the rest of his life.