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Mar 1, 1991 · Edwin H. Land. OSA Honorary Member Edwin Land was born 7 May 1909 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He attended the Norwich Free Academy in Conn., and graduated in 1927. During his first year at Harvard University he studied chemistry but soon left for New York City. Despite not having a lab or degree, Land was able to invent the first ...
Feb 17, 2022 · Land demonstrated his new technology publicly for the first time on Feb. 21, 1947, at a meeting of the Optical Society of America. Land is probably best known for the “instant photo” – or ...
Land was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 7, 1909 and attended the Norwich Free Academy, graduating in 1927. Following high school, he attended Harvard University where he conceived and produced the first modern filters to polarize light, patented in 1929. But it was through his Polaroid Corporation (founded in 1937) that Land was ...
Mar 2, 1991 · Edwin H. Land, whose invention of an instant camera changed the picture-taking habits of millions of people around the world, died yesterday in a hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 81 years old ...
EDWIN HERBERT LAND. May 7, 1909–March 1, 1991. BY VICTOR K. MCELHENY. LESS THAN TWO WEEKS after Edwin Land's death in 1991, members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (and the author) met to plan a day-long memorial conference. Swiftly, they decided on a title, ''Light and Life."
EDWIN HERBERT LAND 1909–1991. EDWIN HERBERT LAND—inventor, scientist, entrepreneur, teacher, visionary, and public servant—was born in Bridge-port, Connecticut, on May 7, 1909, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1991, at the age of eighty-one. He was educated at the Norwich Academy and Harvard University.
The recipient (s) should share Edwin Land's insatiable scientific intensity and curiosity in optics and imaging and, in part, reflect his image as inventor, scientist, entrepreneur, and teacher. The medal was established in 1992 to honor Edwin H. Land for his unique career as scientist, technologist, industrialist, humanist and public servant.
