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Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska, on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, [3] [4] a descendant of Samuel Edgerton, the son of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut, and Alice Ripley, [5] a great-granddaughter of Governor William Bradford (1590–1657) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.
Stopping Time, Harold Edgerton, January–April 2005; Mestizjae, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, January–April 2005 [46] Photography of Hugh Scott, The Oklahoma City National Memorial, 10 Years Remembering, April–July 2005; An Itinerant Eye, James Walden, July–December 2005; A Life In Photography, Arnold Newman, July–December 2005
The photographic works in the growing permanent collection include an entire suite of Harold Edgerton's landmark works using his invention, the strobe light. Also in the collection are Len Prince's celebrity portraits, a notable Dorothea Lange, a portrait of Ansel Adams by Judy Dater, scenes of Pittsburgh by Charles "Teenie" Harris and a body of work by Dianora Niccolini, a pioneer in the ...
One of the most well known photographic inventors of the 20th century, National Medal of Science (1973) recipient, MIT professor, and Boston Camera Club honorary member Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton greatly advanced the photographic strobe by achieving exposure times of one-millionth of a second, and had well-known stop-action photographs in Life ...
The rapatronic camera (a portmanteau of rapid action electronic) is a high-speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds. The camera was developed by Harold Edgerton in the 1940s and was first used to photograph the rapidly changing matter in nuclear explosions within milliseconds of detonation ...
Milk Drop Coronet Scan of a dye-transfer print at the MIT Museum Artist Harold Edgerton Completion date January 10, 1957 Medium Kodak Panatomic X and Ektacolor Subject Drop of milk Location MIT Museum, Original negative destroyed; see Milk Drop Coronet § Physical copies for locations of copies Milk Drop Coronet is a high-speed photograph of a drop of milk falling onto the surface of a red pan ...
Harold Eugene Edgerton, [19] [20] [21] professor at MIT; developer of pioneering stop-action photographic techniques and electronic flashes; Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust, [22] (born September 18, 1947), is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University.
Example of a stopping time: a hitting time of Brownian motion.The process starts at 0 and is stopped as soon as it hits 1. In probability theory, in particular in the study of stochastic processes, a stopping time (also Markov time, Markov moment, optional stopping time or optional time [1]) is a specific type of “random time”: a random variable whose value is interpreted as the time at ...