Dr Sean François Johnston
University of Glasgow
Rutherford-McCowan Building
Crichton Campus
Dumfries DG1 4ZL
BSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1978)
MSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1980)
Chartered Physicist (Institute of Physics, 1990)
PhD (history and philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, 1995)
Chartered Scientist (Science Council, 2004)

"...Even for readers only peripherally interested in holography, Johnston's book is a valuable methodological model"--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences

"Johnston's description of the landscape of holography is the most surprising and satisfying dimension of the book."--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences

"I would recommend this insightful and scholarly work not only to my colleagues, but also to aspiring young scientists and students in the history and cociology of science, plus the general reader who wants to see how one field developed through its early phases."-- Physics World

"This, then, may well be teh ulitmate history of holography."-- Hologrpahy News

"Anyone who wishes to understand where holography comes from and guess where its future lies would do well to start with this book."-- Physicis World

"He explains how holography changed everything it touched, and by extension, also examines how new sciences are born and how they reach maturity, even to the point of redefining their own notions of what constitutes success."--SciTech Book News

"Very interesting indeed."--Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University

"Sean F Johnston achieves a thoroughness in the telling of this history that only a dedicated and professional science historian could deliver. ... .A fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography."-- Holography News

"Only now, with Sean Johnston's richly sourced, carefully argued, multi-perspectival history, do we have an account that turns holography from a curious failure to a technique, tool, end-product, science, technology, art form and medium that can be understood as an organic part of twentieth-century society and culture."--British Journal for the History of Science

'comprehensive and compelling'--Technology & Culture

"Sean Johnston has written a timely and much needed book about the history of holography."--Isis