Hedy Lamarr

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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American film actress and inventor renowned both for her glamorous Hollywood roles and for co-developing a pioneering frequency-hopping technology that laid groundwork for modern wireless communication.

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Hedy Lamarr canonical 11
Hedy Lamarr Day in Austria 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrian-American person
Hollywood actor
film actress
human
inventor
awardReceived EFF Pioneer Award
surface form: Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award

Electronic Frontier Foundation Special Award
Hollywood Walk of Fame
surface form: Hollywood Walk of Fame star
birthName Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
causeOfDeath heart disease
citizenship Austria
United States of America
coInvented frequency-hopping spread spectrum system
coInventedWith George Antheil
countryOfBirth Austro-Hungarian Empire
surface form: Austria-Hungary
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-11-09
dateOfDeath 2000-01-19
ethnicGroup Austrian Jews
familyName Kiesler
fieldOfInvention military communications
wireless communication
genre adventure film
drama film
historical epic film
givenName Hedwig
honouredIn Hedy Lamarr self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hedy Lamarr Day in Austria
influencedTechnology Bluetooth
IMT-2000 family
surface form: CDMA

Wi‑Fi
surface form: Wi-Fi
inventionApplication torpedo guidance
knownFor Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s
frequency-hopping spread spectrum invention
languageSpoken English
German
nationality American
Austrian
notableWork Algiers
Boom Town
Ecstasy
Experiment Perilous
Samson and Delilah
The Strange Woman
White Cargo
Ziegfeld Girl
numberOfChildren 3
occupation actor
film actor
inventor
producer
patentFilingDate 1941-06-10
patentIssueDate 1942-08-11
patentNumber US2292387
patentTitle Secret Communication System
placeOfBirth Vienna
placeOfDeath Casselberry, Florida
posthumousRecognition induction into National Inventors Hall of Fame
religion Judaism
residence Florida
Hollywood
Los Angeles
spouse Friedrich Mandl
Gene Markey
John Loder
Lewis J. Boies
Teddy Stauffer
W. Howard Lee
workedFor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Ziegfeld Girl castMember Hedy Lamarr
Boom Town starring Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr honouredIn Hedy Lamarr self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hedy Lamarr Day in Austria
Delilah;Hedy Lamarr name Hedy Lamarr
subject surface form: Hedy Lamarr
The Story of Mankind castMember Hedy Lamarr
The Conspirators starring Hedy Lamarr
The Conspirators leadActress Hedy Lamarr
John Loder spouse Hedy Lamarr
George Antheil collaboratedWith Hedy Lamarr