Harold doc edgerton biography

  • harold doc edgerton biography

    • Doc Edgerton

    American engineer and inventor (1903-1990)

    Harold Eugene Edgerton

    Edgerton in 1963

    BornApril 6, 1903 (1903-04-06)

    Fremont, Nebraska

    DiedJanuary 4, 1990(1990-01-04) (aged 86)

    Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Alma materUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln(BS, Electrical Engineering, 1925)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MS, Electrical Engineering, 1927; ScD, Electrical Engineering, 1931)
    Known forStroboscope
    AwardsSPIE Gold Medal(1981)
    Scientific career
    FieldsEngineering/photography
    InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

    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.[1] He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply