Victor Georgievich Veselago (1929–2018), a Russian scientist from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, provided great inspiration and impetus to the field of metamaterials with his theoretical analysis of materials with a negative index of refraction.
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Zheludev, N.I. Seeing the future from the past. Nat. Photonics 13, 221–222 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0405-7
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