The History of OSA
Memories of an Editor
The son of an iconic JOSA editor reminisces about his father's home-grown operation.
JOSA editor D.L. MacAdam with his Kodak Retina Reflex in Rocky Point, Newfoundland, Canada (1968).
David L. MacAdam served as OSA president in 1962-1963 and as the editor of JOSA from 1964 until 1975 (volumes 54 through 65, before it was separated into two journals). He was also my father. He shared thoughts and observations on vision and color with me and with my siblings from our childhoods, and this was doubtless an important influence on my own path into physics. So how did my father go about editing JOSA in the "old days"? Here's a peek behind the curtains.
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