{{Short description|American engineer}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = David L. Dilaura | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''David L. DiLaura''' (Boulder, Colorado) is an American engineer, educator and pioneer in lighting calculation software.
DiLaura is a Fellow and Gold Medalist of the Illuminating Engineering Society,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ies.org/programs/recipients/Medal.cfm |title=Medal Recipients |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328123203/http://www.ies.org/programs/recipients/Medal.cfm |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |website=IES.org |publisher=Illuminating Engineering Society |access-date=September 18, 2011 }}</ref> a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside16.shtml |title=AAAS Members Distinguished for Contributions to Science |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |access-date=September 18, 2011 |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930070858/http://www.aaas.org/news/newsandnotes/inside16.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> a member of Tau Beta Pi, and has his LC. He has been topic editor of the 8th and 9th editions of the ''IES Lighting Handbook'' and editor of the 10th edition, he has published 42 technical papers, a translation and analysis of Johann Lambert's seminal Latin work "Photometria", authored "A History of Light and Lighting", and for eight years was Editor-in-Chief of ''LEUKOS'', the journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society.<ref name="uc">{{cite web |url=http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/e0c07565da0410977644f7a4067c1aa2.html |title=Several Prominent People To Be Honored During May 9 CU Commencement Ceremony |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906180215/http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/e0c07565da0410977644f7a4067c1aa2.html |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |publisher=University of Colorado |date=May 8, 2008 |access-date=September 18, 2011 }}</ref>
He was inducted into the Architectural Lighting Hall of Fame in 2001, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado in 2008.<ref name="uc"/>
== Works == # {{cite book |first=David L. |last=DiLaura |title=Photometry, or On the Measure and Gradations of Light, Colors, and Shade. A translation of J.H. Lambert's ''Photometria'' |isbn=0-87995-179-6 |location=New York |publisher=Illuminating Engineering Society of North America |url=http://www.ies.org/store/product/photometry-or-on-the-measure-and-gradations-of-light-color-and-shade-1110.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510084857/http://www.ies.org/store/product/photometry-or-on-the-measure-and-gradations-of-light-color-and-shade-1110.cfm |date=2001 |archive-date=May 10, 2012 }} # {{cite book |first=David L. |last=DiLaura |title=A History of Light and Lighting: In Celebration of the Centenary |isbn=978-0-87995-209-9 |location=New York |publisher=Illuminating Engineering Society of North America |url=http://www.ies.org/store/product/a-history-of-light-and-lightingbrin-celebration-of-the-centenary-of-the-illuminating-engineering-society-of-north-america-1109.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009112920/http://www.ies.org/store/product/a-history-of-light-and-lightingbrin-celebration-of-the-centenary-of-the-illuminating-engineering-society-of-north-america-1109.cfm |date=2006 |archive-date=October 9, 2011 }} # {{cite book |editor-first1=David L. |editor-last1=DiLaura |editor-first2=Kevin W. |editor-last2=Houser |editor-first3=Richard G. |editor-last3=Mistrick |editor-first4=Gary R. |editor-last4=Steffy |url=http://www.iesna.org/handbook/ |title=IES Lighting Handbook |edition=10th |location=New York |publisher=Illuminating Engineering Society of North America |date=2011 }} # {{cite book |first=David L. |last=DiLaura |title=Bibliotheca Opticoria 1475-1925: A Library of the History of Our Understanding of Light and Vision |isbn=978-0-578-54655-1 |location=Boulder |publisher=DLDL Consulting |date=2021 }}
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