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He is past chairman of the Color Committee of the Society, and as the representative of this organization, he is on the Inter-Society Color Council. During the past two years he has served as chairman of the Inter-Society Color Council and is now a member of its Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Color Committee of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
Mr. Evans is well known for his illustrated lectures on color and color photography, which have been delivered in all parts of the country to scientific and technical societies.
Mr. Evans has written a comprehensive book* called "An Introduction to Color" which divides the subject of color into three sections— physics, psychophysics, and psychology. This is a new approach to the subject, and Mr. Evans' years of experience provide a background for this broad viewpoint.
He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he majored in optics and photography and received the degree of Bachelor of Science in physics.
* Reviewed in the JOURNAL for February, 1949, page 236.
; JOURNAL AWARDS— 1949
THE JOURNAL AWARD for 1949 was presented to Mr. Fred G. Albin on October 12, 1949, for his paper "Sensitometric Aspect of Television Monitor-Tube Photography," published in the December, 1948, issue of the JOURNAL.
Fred G. Albin was born in Springfield, Ohio, on December 11,
; 1903. He received his education as electrical engineer from the University of California at Berkeley and California School of Tech
j nology at Pasadena.
In 1930 he became associated with United Artists and Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood as research engineer of sound recording, em
i bracing the fields of acoustics, audio frequency, and photography.
, He gained renown for advancements in variable-density sound recording, contributing several articles to the JOURNAL of the SMPE. In 1940 he became associated with the Radio Corporation of America as development engineer. During the war he developed high-powered radio-frequency generators for industrial applications. Toward the end of the war he developed large-screen television projectors of the instantaneous type; also the kinescope recording systems now extensively used by television broadcasters.