Gabriel Popescu (scientist)
Gabriel Popescu | |
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| Born | October 24, 1971 |
| Died | June 16, 2022 (aged 50) Prundu, Romania |
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| Known for | Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy |
| Children | 2 |
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| Thesis | Propagation of low-coherence fields in inhomogeneous media (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Aristide Dogariu |
| Other academic advisors | Michael Stephen Feld |
Gabriel Popescu (October 24, 1971 – June 16, 2022) was an American optical engineer, who was the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was best known for his work on biomedical optics and quantitative phase-contrast microscopy.