The Mees Medal

In mid-March, during, its spring meeting in Washington, D.C., the Optical Society of America announced the establishment of the C. E. K. Mees International Medal in memory of the late C. E. K. Mees, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories. The silver medal, which bears the motto “Optics Transcends All Boundaries”, was established with the help of a gift from Dr. Mees' family and will be awarded by the Optical Society as a means of recognizing “the extension of the frontiers of optics as Mees himself extended photography”. A relief portrait of Dr. Mees appears on the medal's face; the reverse side bears a chart showing the history of the extension of the photographic spectrum.