Dr. Jeong, born on December 19, 1935 in Guangdong, China, came to the United States in 1948. He received B.S. in physics and mathematics from Yale University in 1957 and a doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Minnesota in 1962. After one year as research associate in physics at the University of Minnesota, he joined the faculty of Lake Forest College in 1963 and became A.B. Dick Professor of Physics and chairman of the Department of Physics in 1973 until he retired as professor emeritus in 1997
In addition to teaching, Dr. Jeong was Director, Center for Photonics Studies, Oak Ridge National Laboratories (summers, 1963-66); co-chaired SPIE conferences (Kiev, Tatábanya, Varna, Quebec City, St.Pölten); and has served as consultant to industry and U.S. government: Gaertmer Science Corp., Abbott Laboratory, Zenith Electronics Corp., Caterpillar Tractor, and McDonald's Corp. He is also founder, SPIE Practical Holography sessions; and founder and president, INTEGRAF, a distributor of instructions and holographic materials.
Dr. Jeong's research interest includes precision-nuclear elastic scattering, linear proton accelerator injector, optics, lasers and holography, and laser applications and holography. An authority on holography, he conducted over 500 invited lectures, seminars and workshops around the world, including Summer LFC Holography Workshops (1971-1997), Triennial International Symposia and Exhibitions on Display Holography (1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, and 1997), and contributed many scholarly works, such as Holography, New Window to the Future (1971), Introduction to Holography (motion picture, 1971), and Proceedings of International. Symposium on Display Holography (ed., 1982, 1985).
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Dr. Jeong received many awards and honors: best paper award, Society of Information Display (1973), Robert Millikin Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers (1976), Sonntag Foundation grantee (1968), McDonald's Corp. grantee (1985), Thomas Alva Edison Lectureship, National Science Teachers' Association (1986), Progress Medal Award, Photographic Society of America (1999); Saxby Medal, Royalty Photographic Society of Great Britain (2000), and Life Time Achievement Award, International Holographic Manufacturers' Association (Lisbon, Portugal, 2000); Fellow, Optical Society of America; and research grants from National Science Foundation, Research Corporation, Gaertner Scientific Corp., Abbott Laboratories, and ITW.
Dr. Jeong is a member, Society of Photo-Optical Instrument Engineers, American Physics Society, American Association of Physics Teachers (president, Midwest Chapter, 1972-73), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (president 1983-84).