Roger Hayward

Roger Hayward
Born	(1899-10-11)October 11, 1899
Died	October 11, 1979(1979-10-11) (aged 80)
Occupation	Artist
Notable work	Blivet

Roger Hayward (1899 – October 11, 1979) was an American artist, architect, optical designer and astronomer. He is the inventor of an early Schmidt-Cassegrain camera that was patented in 1945. He was born on January 7, 1899, to mother, artist Ina Kittredge (Phelps) Hayward and local businessman and time piece hobbyist Robert Peter Hayward. He was the grandson of American landscape artist William Preston Phelps.

In December 1968 he wrote "Blivets: Research and Development" to The Worm Runner's Digest in which he presented interpretations of impossible objects.

References

• Bell, Trudy (September 2007). "Roger Hayward: Forgotten Artist of Optics". Sky and Telescope. 114 (3): 30–37. Bibcode:2007S&T...114c..30B.
• US Patent 2,403,660, Schmidt-Cassegrain camera

External links

• The Roger Hayward Papers
• Roger Hayward - Renaissance Man, a biography of Roger Hayward written by his family members and published by Oregon State University
• A digitized collection of pastel drawings of molecules created by Hayward