William David Wright | |
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| Born | 6 July 1906 |
| Died | 4 June 1997 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc, PhD) |
| Spouse | Dorothy Hudson (1932) |
| Children | 2 (1 deceased) |
| Awards | C.E.K. Mees Medal (1975) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Colourimetry Optics |
William David Wright (1906–1997) was an English physicist who specialised in colour vision.[1] He was known for his contribution to measuring the colours of the spectrum by adding different beams of red, green and blue lights together.[2] This study together with the similar study conducted by John Guild forms the basis of the international standard for colour measurement.[3] The method is still in universal use today.[1]
- ^ a b "W.D. Wright Obituary". The Colour Group (GB). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Wright, William David (1928). "A re-determination of the trichromatic coefficients of the spectral colors". Transactions of the Optical Society. 30 (4): 141–164. doi:10.1088/1475-4878/30/4/301.
- ^ Guild, J. (1932). "The colorimetric properties of the spectrum". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character. 230 (681–693): 149–187. Bibcode:1932RSPTA.230..149G. doi:10.1098/rsta.1932.0005. JSTOR 91229.
The trichromatic coefficients for [Wright's] ten observers agreed so closely with those of the seven observers examined at the National Physical Laboratory as to indicate that both groups must give results approximating more closely to 'normal' than might have been expected from the size of either group