Walter Stanley Stiles 1901–1985

Rinne's F , Crystals and the Fine Structure of Matter translated by Stiles W S , from the German (London: Methuen, 1924).

“Recent measurements of the effect of glare on the brightness difference threshold” in Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage, Septième Session: Recueil des Travaux et Compte Rendu des Séances (Teddington: The National Physical Laboratory, 1928) pp 220–238.

“On the intensity of the scattered light from an unpolarized beam” Philosophical Magazine 7 204 (1929).

“Glare and visibility in artificially lighted streets” Illuminating Engineer (London) 22 195–199, 233–241 (1929).

“Talbot's Law, fatigue and non-linearity in photoelectric cells” Philosophical Magazine 7 812–820(1929).

“The effect of glare on the brightness difference threshold” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 104 322–351(1929).

The Effect of Glare on the Brightness Difference Threshold Illumination Research Technical Paper No 8 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1929).

“The scattering theory of the effect of glare on the brightness difference threshold” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 105 131–146(1929).

“Talbot's Law in photoelectric cells” (with Harrison T H ), Philosophical Magazine 8 64–65(1929).

“The nature and effects of glare” Illuminating Engineer (London) 22 304–309(1929).

“A brightness difference threshold meter” Illuminating Engineer (London) 23 279–280(1930).

“The international aviation lighting meeting in Berlin” The Aeroplane 38 882–886(1930).

Thermionic Emission Radio Research Special Report No 11 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1931).

Appraisal of Streetlighting Installations (with C Dunbar), Illumination Research Technical Paper No 13 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1931).

“The evaluation of glare in streetlighting installations” Illuminating Engineer (London) 24 162–166, 187–189 (1931).

Proceedings of the International Illumination Congress 1931 edited by Stiles W S , (London: International Illumination Congress, 1932).

“Mass experiments in streetlighting” in Proceedings of the International Illumination Congress 1931 Ed. Stiles W S , (London: International Illumination Congress, 1932) pp 576–583.

“The street lighting requirements of different types of street” (with J F Colquhoun) in Proceedings of the International Illumination Congress 1931 Ed. Stiles W S , (London: International Illumination Congress, 1932) pp 584–591.

“Equivalent adaptation levels in localised retinal areas” (with B H Crawford) in Report of a Joint Discussion on Vision by the Physical and Optical Societies (London: The Physical Society, 1932) pp 194–211.

“Comment on visual phenomena and quantum theory” in Report of a Joint Discussion on Vision by the Physical and Optical Societies (London: The Physical Society, 1932) pp 326–327.

Castelfranchi's G , Recent Advances in Atomic Physics translated by Stiles W S Walsh J W T , from the Italian (London: J and A Churchill, 1932).

“The luminous efficiency of rays entering the eye pupil at different points” (with B H Crawford) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 112 428–450 (1933).

“The liminal brightness increment as a function of wavelength for different conditions of the foveal and parafoveal retina” (with B H Crawford) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 113 496–530(1933).

The Evaluation of Glare from Motor Car Headlights (with C Dunbar), Illumination Research Technical Paper No 16 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1934).

“Yellow-blue ratio and personal errors in heterochromatic photometry” Philosophical Magazine 17 660–668 (1934).

“The liminal brightness increment for white light for different conditions of the foveal and parafoveal retina” (with B H Crawford) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 116 55–102 (1934).

“Comparison of the revealing powers of white and coloured headlight beams in fog” Illuminating Engineer (London) 28 313–319 (1935).

“Bewertung von Autoscheinwerfern hinsichtlich der Blendungsfreiheit” Die Lichttechnik 12 17–22 (1935).

“A brightness difference threshold meter for the evaluation of glare from light sources” (with B H Crawford) Journal of Scientific Instruments 12 177–185 (1935).

“Glare” Reports on Progress in Physics 3 310–317 (1936).

“Problems of headlight illumination: Dazzle and fog” Engineering 143 50–52 (1937).

Visibility of Light Signals with Special Reference to Aviation Lights (with M G Bennett and H N Green), Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda No 1793 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1937) 68 pages.

“The luminous efficiency of monochromatic rays entering the eye pupil at different points and a new colour effect” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 123 90–118 (1937).

“Luminous efficiency of rays entering the eye pupil at different points” (with B H Crawford) Nature (London) 139 246 (1937).

“Visibility in fog” The Electrical Review (London) 121 782–783 (1937).

“The effect of a glaring light source on extrafoveal vision” (with B H Crawford) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 122 255–280 (1937).

The Use of Coloured Light for Motor Car Headlights Illumination Research Technical Paper No 20 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1937).

Review of Grimsehls Lehrbuch der Physik revised by Tomaschek R , volume 2, part 2 Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 50 620 (1938).

Review of Grimsehls Lehrbuch der Physik revised by Tomaschek R , volume 2, part 1 Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 50 977 (1938).

Review of Die Physik des 20 Jahrhunderts by Jordan P , Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 50 977 (1938).

Review of The Perception of Light by Wright W D , Science Progress 34 163 (1939).

Review of Grimsehls Lehrbuch der Physik by Tomaschek R , volume 1, part 1 Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 51 559 (1939).

“The directional sensitivity of the retina and the spectral sensitivities of the rods and cones” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 127 64–105 (1939).

“Variation with temperature of the electrical resistance of carbon and graphite between 0° and 900°C” (with Collier L J Taylor W G A ) Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 51 147–152 (1939).

“The directional sensitivity of the retina” Science Progress (London) 33 676–689(1939).

Review of Introductory Quantum Mechanics by Rojansky V , Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 52 277–278(1940).

Review of Test for Night Vision designed by Wright W D , Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 53 492 (1941).

Review of Visibility in Meteorology by Middleton W E Knowles Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 54 72–73(1942).

“The effectiveness of lighting: Its numerical assessment” (with Wright W D Craik K J W MacPherson S J ) Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society 8 43–53(1943).

“A mean scotopic visibility curve” (with Smith T ) Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 56 251–255(1944).

“Current problems of visual research” (abridged from a lecture given before the Physical Society, 24 May, 1944) Nature (London) 154 290–294(1944).

“Current problems of visual research” Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 56 329–356(1944).

“Photometer for measuring the scotopic candlepowers of self-luminous ophthalmic test objects” British Journal of Ophthalmology 28 629–637(1944).

“Colour vision of the fovea centralis” Nature (London) 155 177 (1944).

Review of What is Life? by Schrödinger E , Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 57 146 (1945).

Review of The Measurement of Colour by Wright W D , Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 57 368 (1945).

“A modified Helmholtz line element in brightness-colour space” Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 58 41–65(1946).

“The basic sensation curves of the three-color theory” Journal of the Optical Society of America 36 491–492(1946).

“Separation of the ‘blue’ and ‘green’ mechanisms of foveal vision by measurements of increment thresholds” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 133 418–434(1946).

“Wartime problems of glare and dazzle” British Medical Bulletin 5 50–52(1947).

“Mechanism of colour vision” Nature (London) 160 664–666(1947).

“Binocular colour matching: An essay review of W D Wright's Researches on Normal and Defective Colour Vision” Science Progress (London) 35 342–346(1947).

“Colour phenomena in the perception of fine detail” Nature (London) 160 880–881(1947).

Review of Retinal Structure and Colour Vision by E N Willmer Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 59 518 (1947).

Review of Researches on Normal and Defective Colour Vision by W D Wright Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 59 326–327(1947).

“Mr. T. Smith, F.R.S.” Nature (London) 162 987 (1948).

“The physical interpretation of the spectral sensitivity curve of the eye” in Transactions of the Optical Convention of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (London: Spectacle Makers' Company, 1948) pp 97–107.

“The directional and spectral sensitivities of the retinal rods to adapting fields of different wavelengths” (with F Flamant), Journal of Physiology (London) 107 187–202(1948).

“Colour terminology” Nature (London) 162 54–55(1948).

“The visibility of targets in a naval searchlight beam” (with W D Chesterman) in Symposium on Searchlights (London: Illuminating Engineering Society, 1948) pp 75–102.

“Apparent shape and size of the pupil viewed obliquely” (with K H Spring) British Journal of Ophthalmology 32 347–354(1948).

“Variation of pupil size with change in the angle at which the light stimulus strikes the retina” (with K H Spring) British Journal of Ophthalmology 32 340–346(1948).

“The determination of the spectral sensitivities of the retinal mechanisms by sensory methods” Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde 15 125–145(1949).

“Increment thresholds and the mechanisms of colour vision” Documenta Ophthalmologica 3 138–163(1949).

“Comments on Wald's derivation of the spectral absorption of the macular pigment” Documenta Ophthalmologica 3 135–136(1949).

“Investigation of the scotopic and trichromatic mechanisms of vision by the two-colour threshold technique” Revue d'Optique 28 215–237(1949); reprinted in Réunions d'Opticiens tenues à Paris en Octobre 1946 Eds Fleury P Maréchal A Anglade C , (Paris: Éditions de la Revue d'Optique, 1950).

Review of Optique Physiologique Tome 2: Lumière et Couleurs by Y Le Grand Nature (London) 166 1047 (1950).

“Sensibilidad de bastones y conos en la parafovea” (with J Cabello) Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Física y Química, Serie A: Física 46 251–282(1950).

Review of Recent Advances in the Physiology of Vision by H Hartridge Proceedings of the Physical Society, London, Section B 63 828–829(1950).

Review of Stereoptics by L P Dudley Journal of Scientific Instruments 28 356 (1951).

Review of Eyes in Industry by D A Campbell, W J B Riddell, and A Salusbury MacNalty Science Progress 39 762–763(1951).

Review of Les Théories Photochimiques Classiques et Quantiques de la Vision et l'Inhibition Nerveuse en Vision Liminaire by E Baumgardt Nature (London) 168 758 (1951).

“Spectral reflexion factor of the cat's tapetum” (with R Gunter and H G W Harding) Nature (London) 168 293 (1951).

“The eye, brightness and illuminating engineering” Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society 17 241–282(1952).

“Colour vision: A retrospect” Endeavour 11 33–40(1952).

Review of Colour in Theory and Practice Ed. Murray H D , British Journal of Applied Physics 3 396 (1952).

“Visual properties studied by subjective measurements on the colour-adapted eye” British Medical Bulletin 9 41–49(1953).

“Further studies of visual mechanisms by the two-colour threshold technique” in Colloquio sobre Problemas Opticas de la Vision volume 1 (Madrid: Union Internationale de Physique Pure et Appliquée, 1953) pp 65–103.

“Visual factors in lighting” Illuminating Engineering (New York) 49 77–91 (1954).

“Saturation of the rod mechanism of the retina at high levels of stimulation”(with M Aguilar) Optica Acta 1 59–65(1954).

“Review of Vision through the Atmosphere by W E K Middleton Proceedings of the Physical Society, London, Section B 67 166–167(1954).

“The basic data of colour-matching: 18th Thomas Young Oration” Yearbook of the Physical Society, London 44–65 (1955).

“Colour specification: Possible revision of the C.I.E. system” Nature (London) 176 95–97(1955).

“Interim report to the Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage, Zurich, 1955, on the National Physical Laboratory's investigation of colour-matching” (with an Appendix by Stiles W S Burch J M ) Optica Acta 2 168–181(1955).

“Remarks on the line-element” Farbe 4 275–279(1955).

“Colour vision” Nature (London) 180 1395–1397(1957).

“The average colour-matching functions for a large matching field” in National Physical Laboratory (UK) Symposium No 8: Visual Problems of Colour volume 1 (London: H M Stationery Office, 1958) pp 209–247.

Review of The Measurement of Colour 2nd edition, by Wright W D , Nature (London) 181 1297–1298(1958).

Review of Light, Colour and Vision by Grand Y Le Proceedings of the Physical Society, London 71 871–872(1958).

Review of The Reproduction of Colour by R W Hunt Nature (London) 184 1092 (1959).

“Color vision: The approach through increment-threshold sensitivity” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 45 100–114(1959).

“N.P.L. colour-matching investigation: Final report (1958)” (with Burch J M ), Optica Acta 6 1–26(1959).

“The trichromatic scheme” in Mechanisms of Colour Discrimination Ed. Gallifret Y , (London: Pergamon Press, 1960) pp 187–195.

“Lighting and research” Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society 26 53–65(1961).

“The colour change of monochromatic light with retinal angle of incidence” (with Enoch J M ) Optica Acta 8 329–358(1961).

“Adaptation, chromatic adaptation, colour transformation” Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Física y Química, Serie A: Física 57 149–175(1961).

“Field trials of color-mixture functions” (with Wyszecki G ) Journal of the Optical Society of America 52 58–75(1962).

“Counting metameric object colours” (with Wyszecki G ) Journal of the Optical Society of America 52 313–328(1962).

“The directional sensitivity of the retina” Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 30 73–101(1962).

“Dr John W T. Walsh” Light and Lighting (September) p 293 (1962).

Obituary of John William Tudor Walsh Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers 8 483 (1962).

Review of Sight, Light and Work by H C Weston Science Progress 51 129 (1963).

“N.P.L. colour-matching investigation: Addendum on additivity” Optica Acta 10 229–232(1963).

“Interactions among chromatic mechanisms as inferred from positive and negative increment thresholds” (with Boynton R M Ikeda M ) Vision Research 4 87–117(1964).

“Foveal threshold sensitivity on fields of different colors” Science 145 1016–1017(1964).

Color Science (with G Wyszecki) (New York: Wiley, 1967).

“Mechanism concepts in colour theory” (Newton Lecture) Journal of the Colour Group 11 106–123(1967).

“Intersections of the spectral reflectance curves of metameric object colours” (with Wyszecki G ) Journal of the Optical Society of America 58 32–40(1968).

“Interrelations among Stiles' π-mechanisms” (with Ikeda M Uetsuki T ) Journal of the Optical Society of America 60 406–415(1970).

“The line element in colour theory: A historical review” in Proceedings of the Helmholtz Memorial Symposium on Colour Metrics, Driebergen, Netherlands, September 1971 (Soesterberg, The Netherlands: AIC Holland, c/o Institute for Perception TNO, 1972) pp 1–25.

“Rod intrusion in large-field colour-matching” (with Wyszecki G ) Acta Chromatica (Japan) 2 155–163(1973).

“Colour-matching data and the spectral absorption curves of visual pigments” (with Wyszecki G ) Vision Research 14 195–207(1974).

“Counting metameric object color stimuli using frequency-limited spectral reflectance functions” (with Wyszecki G Ohta N ) Journal of the Optical Society of America 67 779–784(1977).

“Early threshold observations of transient tritanopia” Appendix to “An anomaly in the response of the eye to light of short wavelengths” by Mollon J D Polden P G , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 278 207–240(1977).

Mechanisms of Colour Vision: Selected Papers of W.S. Stiles F.R.S. with a New Introductory Essay (London: Academic Press, 1978).

“The two-colour threshold method and π mechanisms: Historical note” in Colour Vision Deficiencies V Ed. Verriest G , (Bristol: Hilger, 1980) pp 111–114.

“High-level trichromatic color matching and the pigment-bleaching hypothesis” (with Wyszecki G ) Vision Research 20 23–37(1980).

Foreword to Vertebrate Photoreceptor Optics Eds Enoch J M Tobey F L Jr , (Berlin: Springer, 1981).

Color Science 2nd edition (with Wyszecki G ) (New York: Wiley, 1982).

“Reflections on the past and comments on the present” Perception 15 667–672(1986).