Harold Edgerton

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electrical engineer human inventor photographer university professor

Harold Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor best known for pioneering high-speed stroboscopic photography, capturing iconic images of fast phenomena like bullets piercing apples and milk-drop coronets.

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Label	Occurrences
Doc Edgerton	1
Harold Edgerton canonical	1
Harold Eugene Edgerton	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	electrical engineer ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ photographer ⓘ university professor ⓘ
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ Doctor of Science ⓘ Master of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ
awardReceived	Howard N. Potts Medal ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Stuart Ballantine Medal ⓘ
coFounded	EG&G ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1903-04-06 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1990-01-04 ⓘ
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ University of Nebraska–Lincoln ⓘ
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
familyName	Edgerton ⓘ
fieldOfWork	electrical engineering ⓘ high-speed photography ⓘ stroboscopy ⓘ
founded	Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc. ⓘ
fullName	Harold Edgerton self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Harold Eugene Edgerton
givenName	Harold ⓘ
hasWorkInCollection	MIT Museum ⓘ Museum of Modern Art ⓘ surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York Smithsonian Institution ⓘ
influenced	artistic high-speed photography ⓘ motion picture technology ⓘ scientific photography ⓘ
knownFor	capturing fast phenomena invisible to the naked eye ⓘ development of electronic flash ⓘ pioneering high-speed stroboscopic photography ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
nickname	Harold Edgerton self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Doc Edgerton
notableWork	development of high-speed stroboscopic photography ⓘ high-speed photographs of sports motion ⓘ iconic photograph of a bullet piercing an apple ⓘ milk-drop coronet photograph ⓘ nighttime aerial reconnaissance photography using strobe ⓘ underwater flash photography ⓘ
occupation	electrical engineer ⓘ inventor ⓘ photographer ⓘ university professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Fremont, Nebraska ⓘ surface form: Fremont, Nebraska, United States
placeOfDeath	Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld	professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Doc Edgerton