PUBLICATIONS

PHYSICAL REVIEW

1954 Light Output of Luminescent Plastics

1956 Electroluminescence in Zinc Sulfide

1959 AC-DC Electroluminescence

1959 Electroluminescence at Low Voltages

1961 DC Electroluminescence at Low Voltages

1961 Thin Film Elucidation of the Electroluminescence Process

 

JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY

1956 Cathode Ray Tube Screen Charging...(et al.)

1960 Electroluminescence Maintenance

1961 Electroluminescence in ZnS as Due-to Carrier Injection

1963 Some Aspects of Electroluminescence in ZnS

1967 Quantum Efficiency Spectra of Photoluminescent Materials

1970 Some Aspects of Optical Measurements of Luminescence

 

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

1957 E1ectro1uminescence Deterioration

1959 Electroluminescent Thin Films

1961 Phosphor Powder Dispersion in Electroluminescent Lamps

1962 DC Electroluminescence in ZnS Films

 

IRE TRANSACTIONS

1961 Properties of Electroluminescent Phosphors: Display Devices

 

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

1971 Luminosity and Color Rendering Capability of White Light

1972 Color Discrimination Index

1972 Three-Color Visual Response

 

PROC. / 3RD CONGRESS OF THE AIC (TROY, NY)

1971 Characterizing Prime-Color Illuminants

 

WESTINGHOUSE ENGINEER

1972  Relating commercial uses of color to human color vision

 

LIGHTING DESIGN AND APPLICATION

1972 Color and Light Sources

1972 The Quality of White Light

1975 Fluorescent Light Sources

1975 The High Visual Efficiency of Prime-Color Lamps

1976 The Commercial Prime-Color Fluorescent Lamp

1977 Illumination for Task Performance

1980 Differences in Color Vision

1991-1999 Comprehending Color Series (72 Articles)

 

JOURNAL OF THE ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY

1972 A Mercury Lamp for Lighting People

1972 High Performance Fluorescent Lamps (with H.H.Haft)

1973 Fluorescent Lamp with High Color Discrimination Capability

1973 System of Photometry and Colorimetry Based on Visual Response

1974 Lamps for Assessing Metamerism

1974 Validation of the Color Preference-Index

1976 Lamps for Assessing Metamerism II.

1977 Design of Safety Colors

1978 What is Visual Clarity? (with E.Chen)

1979 Simple Picture of Matching Lights

1980 Brightness Meter

 

APPLIED OPTICS

1972 Color Rendering Capability of Commercial Lamps

 

JOURNAL OF COLOR AND APPEARANCE

1973 Matching Lights, Metamers and Human Visual Response

 

DIE FARBE

1974 Characterization of Natural Colored Lights

1975 Theory of Color Difference Perception

1985 Color Circles that Reverse Chromatic Order with Changes of Illuminant

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

1978 The Psychophysics of Image Coloration

 

COLOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATION

1978 Reply to Ohta-Wyszecki on Location of Nodes of Metameric Stimuli

1986 Evidence for the Three Spectral Responses of the.. .Visual System

1986 "Color Forum", Note on Visual Responses: System vs. Retinal

1986 Improving Color Constancy of Object Colors

1987 Letter to Editor, in reply to the article

1986 Evidence for the Three Spectral Responses of the Normal Human Visual System

1992 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry, Part I.

1992 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry, Part II.

1992 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry, Part III.

1992 Critique of "Recommended Terminology for Matrix R.. .".

1993 Response to MacAdam's Letter to the Editor (with Founding Editor Fred W. Billmeyer Jr.)

1993 Response to Fairchild's "Color Forum" on the CIE 1931 Standard Colorimetric Observer (with H. S. Fairman and F. W. Billmeyer)

1993 Intersections of Spectral Power Distributions of Lights that Match

1993 Intersections of Matching Spectra: Applications

1994 Rebuttal: 20 Years' Work with the Intersections of Spectral Power Distributions of Matching Lights

1997 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry. Part IV Visual experiments with bright fields and both 10 degree and 1.3 degree field sizes.

1998 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry. Part V Testing visually matching pairs of lights for possible rod participation on the Aguiler-Stiles model.

1998 Toward a More Accurate and Extensible Colorimetry. Part VI Improved Weighting Functions.  Preliminary results  

2002  The Prime Colors of Human Vision; Their Prescription for Illumination, Color Printing,Color Photography, Color Television, and Visual Clarity
William A. Thornton    Prime-Color Inc. (USA)

Published in:

The First European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV)
Poitiers, France;April 2002; p. 56-60; ISBN / ISSN: 0-89208-239-9