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Harold Eugene Edgerton

1903 - 1990

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Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Eugene Edgerton is the 180th most popular inventor (up from 379th in 2019), the 2,952nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,793rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 180 out of 426. Before him are Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, Henrich Focke, Émile Baudot, and Artur Fischer. After him are Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Gunther von Hagens, William Murdoch, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, and Fausto Veranzio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 103. Before him are Victor Brauner, Elisha Cook Jr., Arpad Elo, Benjamin Spock, Mary Norton, and Watchman Nee. After him are Adelbert Schulz, Anny Ondra, Georges Politzer, Luigi Allemandi, Ma Bufang, and Michail Stasinopoulos. Among people deceased in 1990, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 80. Before him are Samuel Doe, David Rose, Dexter Gordon, Martin Ritt, Vaso Čubrilović, and Attilio Demaría. After him are Horst Sindermann, Alan Hale Jr., Taro Kagawa, Lewis Mumford, Thorbjørn Egner, and Georgy Flyorov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 2,952 out of 20,380. Before him are Nick Holonyak (1928), Julian Schnabel (1951), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Gigi Hadid (1995), Audre Lorde (1934), and Richie Sambora (1959). After him are Jim Rogers (1942), Gabe Newell (1962), Jim Davis (1909), Steve Fossett (1944), Charlie Baker (1956), and GZA (1966).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Harold Eugene Edgerton ranks 50. Before him are Robert Moog (1934), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Alfred Vail (1807), and Robert Metcalfe (1946). After him are Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), Sequoyah (1770), Garrett Morgan (1877), J. Presper Eckert (1919), and Eunice Newton Foote (1819).

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