Stiles-Crawford effect

Stiles-Crawford effect
Stiles-Craw·ford effect .stīlz-'krȯ-fərd- n an optical phenomenon in which light passing through the center of the pupil is perceived as more intense than light passing through the periphery of the pupil
Stiles Walter Stanley (1901-1985), and
Crawford Brian Hewson (1906-1991)
British physicists. Stiles spent almost all of his career as a research scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain. He was the author of numerous papers on illuminating engineering and physiological optics. He published book-length studies on thermionic emission (1932), the science of color (1967), and the mechanisms of color vision (1978). The Stiles-Crawford effect honors their names.

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