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Dr. Irvine Clifton Gardner (1889 – 1972) was an American physicist known for his contributions to optics and aerial photography.
Gardner was born in 1889.[1] In 1921, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), and in 1950, became chief of the Division of Optics and Meteorology.[1] He headed a joint NBS-National Geographic Society expedition to Khazakstan to observe the solar eclipse of June 19, 1936.[1] The team took used a four-meter eclipse camera with a 23-centimeter astrographic lens to take the first natural color photographs of a solar eclipse.[1] The next year Gardner joined a National Geographic-U.S. Navy expedition to the Canton Islands to photograph the solar eclipse of June 8, 1937.[1] He retired from the Bureau of Standards in 1959.[1]
Gardner was the president of the Optical Society of America in 1958.[2] He was also noted for his work in the field of spectroscopy.
In 1954, he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the Optical Society of America; he was made a fellow of the OSA in 1959.[1] In 1955, he was awarded a fellowship of the Society of Imaging Science and Technology. The Gardner Inlet and the crater Gardner on the Moon are named after him.[1]
