Person
Edwin H. Land
American inventor of a sheet light polarizer; founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
- Also known as
- Edwin Herbert Land
- Educated at Harvard University 1
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founded
- Polaroid Corporation 1937 Scholarship & press 1
educated at
- Harvard University Scholarship & press 1
developed
- Land’s light polarizer Scholarship & press 1
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- 1937 Edwin H. Land founded Polaroid Corporation
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Edwin Herbert Land (Biographical Memoirs), National Academy of Sciences.
Scholarship & press
While still a freshman at Harvard, Land was intrigued with the natural phenomena of polarized light
Polaroid Corporation was organized in 1937 as a successor to Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, with Land as president, director of research, and chairman of the board.
The light polarizers Land invented made it economically possible to make use of the phenomenon of light polarization in products as diverse as camera filters, scientific instruments, train and airplane windows, three-dimensional movies, and polarizing sunglasses.
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