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A Grand Gold Medal awarded at the Paris Exhibition, in 1867. Royal Society gold Medal in 1885. Society of Arts Albert Gold Medal in 1897. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, presented by Napoleon III for his inventions and discoveries in 1860, [42] granting him the title "Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour". He was also awarded:
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
He considered his leadership towards the development of integral instant color photography – the SX-70 film and camera – to be his crowning achievement. Although he led the Polaroid Corporation as a chief executive, Land was a scientist first and foremost, and as such made sure that he performed "an experiment each day".
The first permanent photograph of a camera image was made in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. [11]: 9–11 Niépce had been experimenting with ways to fix the images of a camera obscura since 1816. The photograph Niépce succeeded in creating shows the view from his window.
Discovered many isotopes, Protactinium and nuclear fission. Samuel Hahnemann: Physician, best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Harald zur Hausen: Virologist, discovered the role of papilloma viruses in the development of cervical cancer. His research made the development of a vaccine against papilloma ...
Marconi technician Peter Wright, a British scientist and later MI5 counterintelligence officer, ran the investigation. [9] He was able to get The Thing working reliably with an illuminating frequency of 800 MHz. The generator which had discovered the device was tuned to 1800 MHz.
Lev Sergeyevich Termen [a] (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.
Josef Popper (1838–1921), Austria – discovered the transmission of power by electricity. Aleksandr Porokhovschikov (1892–1941), Russia – Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first caterpillar amphibious ATV) Ignazio Porro (1801–1875), Italy – Porro prism, strip camera