Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid...
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The Edwin H. Land Medal is jointly presented by The Optical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T). The Land Medal was established...
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in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, to exploit the use of his Polaroid polarizing polymer. Land and Polaroid created the first instant camera, the Land Camera, in...
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Harvard, formerly the Rowland Institute for Science, was founded by Edwin H. Land (founder of Polaroid Corporation) as a nonprofit, privately endowed...
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JSTOR 82365. S2CID 120320368. "Edwin H. Land | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved 2023-12-08. Campbell, F. W. (1994). "Edwin Herbert Land. 7 May 1909-1 March 1991"...
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original material, patented in 1929 and further developed in 1932 by Edwin H. Land, consists of many microscopic crystals of iodoquinine sulphate (herapathite)...
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criticisms, both theories remain in use. A newer theory proposed by Edwin H. Land, the Retinex Theory, is based on a demonstration of color constancy...
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John Warnock (category Articles with hCards)
of the Association for Computing Machinery. Warnock was awarded the Edwin H. Land Medal from the Optical Society of America in 2000. In 2002, he was made...
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Color constancy (redirect from Land effect)
was discovered by Edwin H. Land, who was attempting to reconstruct James Clerk Maxwell's early experiments in full-colored images. Land saw that, even when...
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Polaroid SX-70 (redirect from SX-70 Land Camera)
(fully within 10 minutes) without chemical residue. Polaroid founder Edwin H. Land announced the SX-70 at a company annual meeting in April 1972. On stage...
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came to the attention of Sir David Brewster, and were later used by Edwin H. Land in 1929 to construct the first type of Polaroid sheet polarizer. He...
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List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients (category Articles with hCards)
"Remarks by President Trump at Presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese". whitehouse.gov. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved...
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Lockheed U-2 (section U-2E/F/H details)
Air Force's Gordon P. Saville, and included James Gilbert Baker and Edwin H. Land, who would design the specialized optics in the U-2. During the early...
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producer Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), American scientist and inventor Frank Land (born 1928), British information systems researcher Frank S. Land (1890–1959)...
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The creation of the reflective material, Polaroid, was constructed by Edwin H. Land. These reflective sunglasses worked by bouncing the light off using...
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countries. Plants were built in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Edwin H. Land, co-founder of Polaroid Corporation, contacted United States Time Corporation...
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Latimer Dryden, Kelly Johnson, Warren K. Lewis 1966—Claude Shannon 1967—Edwin H. Land, Igor Sikorsky 1968—J. Presper Eckert, Nathan M. Newmark 1969—Jack Kilby...
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to begin work on solving the tracking problem. Among the group were Edwin H. Land, founder of the Polaroid Corporation and head of Project Three the Technological...
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (shared with 3 people) OSA/IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal in 2020. National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technology...
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to achieve an anaglyph effect. While attending Harvard University, Edwin H. Land conceived the idea of reducing glare by polarizing light. He took a...
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formation of a new advisory committee to study the concepts, led by Edwin H. Land under the designation Project Gusto. The committee first met in November...
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The process varies according to the film type. In 1947 Edwin H. Land introduced the Polaroid-Land process. The first instant films produced sepia tone photos...
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bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law by diploma. Edwin H. Land, who invented the Land Camera instant camera, and was a co-founder of the Polaroid...
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for the U.S. government. 1948 The Hasselblad camera is introduced. Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera. 1949 – The Contax S camera...
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List of inventors (section H)
Austria and U.S. – Spread spectrum radio Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), U.S. – Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera Samuel P. Langley (1834–1906),...
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apparatus – Petrus Jacobus Kipp Krarup cable – Carl Emil Krarup Land Camera – Edwin H. Land Langmuir probe – Irving Langmuir Leigh light – Humphrey de Verd...
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theory 1980: Robert N. Noyce, developer of the integrated circuit 1979: Edwin H. Land, Inventor of instant photography 1978: Claude E. Shannon, creator of...
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Societies 2005 Kyoto Prize in advanced technology, Inamori Foundation 2006 Edwin H. Land Medal 2012 Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering...
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Alan Bovik (category Articles with hCards)
and application of perception-based image and video processing.” The Edwin H. Land Medal from The Optical Society of America in 2017 “For substantially...
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million. In the wake of those losses, Polaroid chairman and founder Edwin H. Land resigned the chief executive position in 1980 and left the company two...
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