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Science Afternoon Properties of Light

Properties of Light

Dr. John Lesoine, a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Radiation and Biomolecular Physics Division at NIST, has an extensive background in light and optics, and shared with teachers how he uses light to learn more about materials as well as how properties of light can be taught to students.

We discovered that there was a lot to learn about the Properties of Light!

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Created March 23, 2012, Updated August 25, 2016