Vladimir F Tamari
Vladimir F. Tamari | |
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| Born | 1942 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | August 7, 2017 (aged 74–75) Tokyo, Japan |
| Residence | Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Known for | Fundamentals of physics, art, invention |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, optics, fine art, invention |
Vladimir F. Tamari (1942 – 7 August 2017) was a Palestinian-born artist, engineer and independent physicist who spent most of his life in Tokyo, Japan. He was known both for his paintings and for his self-published research in physics, in which he proposed an alternative, aether-based model of light and matter, and for a series of inventions in three-dimensional drawing and optical imaging.
Biography
Tamari was born in 1942 in Jerusalem, in what was then Mandatory Palestine. He studied physics and art at the American University of Beirut and later studied painting at St Martin's School of Art in London. Around 1970 he settled permanently in Japan, living and working in Tokyo for the rest of his life while pursuing interests in fine art, graphic design, physics and industrial design. He died in Tokyo on 7 August 2017.
His paintings are held in museum and institutional collections including the British Museum, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Darat al Funun in Amman, and the Royal Collection in Jordan.
Work
From about 1980 Tamari combined his art with independent research and publication in optics, imaging and auto-stereoscopic display, and he held United Kingdom, Japanese and United States patents relating to Arabic typography, three-dimensional and perspective drawing devices, and a method intended to cancel optical diffraction. He built the first prototype of a three-dimensional drawing device (which he called the "3DD") in Jerusalem in 1964; the prototype was lost during the 1967 war, after which he constructed and refined many further models of the instrument.
In physics, Tamari set out his ideas in a self-published paper, Beautiful Universe: Towards Reconstructing Physics From New First Principles (2005). In this work he proposed reconstructing physics from a lattice of interacting nodes forming the edges and vertices of three-dimensional polyhedral structures, the simplest being the tetrahedron. In his model a photon is treated as a wave pattern made up of particle-like nodes, which he presented as a way of accounting for wave-particle behaviour, and he related the form of the electric field of a dipole to a Gaussian distribution as a physical interpretation of the quantum probability amplitude. His writings advanced these as alternatives to aspects of the standard theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.