Melvin M. Weiner (December 5, 1933 – February 12, 2016) was an electrical engineer, scientist, author, and inventor. He authored three books and 36 refereed papers. He was also the holder of five patents. He was the first to reduce pass-bands and stop-bands in photonic crystals to practice. Weiner was the founder-chairman of the Motor Vehicle Safety Group.
Weiner received S.B. and S.M. degrees with honors in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
Weiner, an orthodox Jew would often lecture regarding his insights into the 613 commandments. Focusing on their connections to the practices of the Ancient Egyptians, theorizing that many commandments were made in opposition to them.[2]
Weiner was the founder-chairman of the Motor Vehicle Safety Group contributing to the establishment of the current National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Weiner also contributed to making the car bumper commonplace.[3]
The pass-bands and stop-bands in photonic crystals were first reduced to practice by Melvin M. Weiner[4] who called those crystals "discrete phase-ordered media." He achieved those results by extending Darwin's[5] dynamical theory for x-ray Bragg diffraction to arbitrary wavelengths, angles of incidence, and cases where the incident wavefront at a lattice plane is scattered appreciably in the forward-scattered direction.
Weiner authored thirty-six refereed papers and one-hundred-thirty-five technical reports.[3] Publications include: