Papers of Juris Upatnieks, a University of Michigan scientist who helped to lay the foundations of holography, a photography technique that recreates the recorded objects with all of their three-dimensional optical properties. Collection includes Upatnieks correspondence with American and international scientists and companies, scientific papers, proposals and technical reports, sometimes prepared in collaboration with other scientists, as well as digitized laboratory notebooks and lantern slides illustrating his research on various subjects.
The collection documents Juris Upatnieks' scientific research and output and divided into six series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Proposals, Reports, Lantern Slides, and Laboratory Notebooks.