Milton Kerker (September 25, 1920 — May 2, 2016) was an American physical chemist and former professor at department of chemistry at Clarkson University.
[5] Kerker's work encompassed aerosol and colloid science, as well as their relation to light scattering by small particles.
[2][3] Regarded as a pioneer of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS),[1][2] he has worked on the mathematical models in the field.
[6][7] In 1986, Kerker also coauthored the article on light scattering by hypothetical magnetic spheres, which hypothesized a distinct absence of backscattering for small particles with equal relative permittivities and permeabilities.
[8] While being largely unnoticed at the time of its publication, the work has since attracted attention with the advent of metamaterials and nanophotonics; the associated phenomenon, named as Kerker effect, was later verified experimentally.