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James Thomas Dakin, known as Jim, was born in 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1967 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1971, both in physics. He worked as a post-doctoral student at Stanford University, then briefly as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1975 he began a 37-year career with General Electric, primarily in lighting technology. Since retiring from GE in 2012, he has worked as a consultant, and pursued a number of hobbies, including broader aspects of light. Light has been a lifelong passion which began in elementary school, when his father taught him photography and darkroom skills.