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Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, [2] FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, [4] best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography , and the retinex theory of color vision , among other things.
Polaroid founder Edwin H. Land was the primary driver behind the project, and many engineers and designers made key contributions. The final styling of the product involved industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss and his firm. [25] [26] [27] [28]
The Edwin H. Land Medal is jointly presented by The Optical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). [1] The Land Medal was established in 1992 to honor the noted scientist and entrepreneur Edwin H. Land, [2] who is noted for his invention of instant photography, for founding the Polaroid Corporation, and for developing the theory of Retinex, amongst many other ...
Edwin H. Land: 1909 Polaroid [22] 1977 George Eastman: 1854 Photography [23] 1977 Lee De Forest * 1873 Audion amplifier tube [24] 1977 Vladimir K. Zworykin * 1888 Cathode-ray tube [25] 1978 Carl Djerassi: 1923 Oral contraceptives [26] 1978 Leo Baekeland: 1863 Bakelite [27] 1978 Louis Pasteur: 1822 Pasteurization [28] 1978 Luis Walter Alvarez: 1911
The American physicist and industrialist Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991) launches the first instant camera, Polaroid camera Model 95 on the market. Three American engineers at Bell Laboratories (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley) invent the transistor. Its lesser size and power compared with electron tubes brings (from 1955 ...
The channel was cut from land where, until recently, fishing families lived. Beyond it rises the plant’s twin red-and-white striped smokestacks, visible for miles across the flat landscape. Jam belongs to a Muslim minority group called the Waghers, whose history on the coastline dates back 200 years, according to their fishing association.
Herbert Lee “Cowboy” Coward, who was known for his role in Deliverance, died at age 85 after a car crash. Coward was involved in a collision on Wednesday, January 24, according to local news ...
Edwin Herbert Land: Cambridge, Massachusetts: For his inventions related to the application of polarized light: 1947 E. Newton Harvey: Princeton, New Jersey: For his research in bioluminescence: 1949 Ira Sprague Bowen: Pasadena, California: For his work on the identification of nebulium and for other outstanding works 1951 Herbert E. Ives ...