Edwin H. Land

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Gender	Male
Death	33 years ago
Date of birth	May 7,1909
Zodiac sign	Taurus
Born	Bridgeport
	Connecticut
	United States
Date of died	March 1,1991
Died	Cambridge
	Massachusetts
	United States
Spouse(s)	Helen Terre Maislen (m. 1929; 2 children)
Books	Singular Images
Job	Inventor
	Photographer
	Entrepreneur
	Physicist
Education	Harvard University
	Norwich Free Academy
Spous	Helen Terre Maislen
Known for	Polarizing film; Land instant camera
Siblings	Anna Helen Land Sigal
Children	Jennifer Land Dubois
	Valerie Land Smallwood
Founded	Polaroid Corporation
	Polaroid Eyewear
	The Rowland Institute At Harvard
Date of Reg.	2019-02-21 14:04:37
Date of Upd.	2023-11-11 23:37:14
ID	440023

Presidential Medal of Freedom
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Perkin Medal
Rumford Prize
Frederic Ives Medal
National Medal of Science for Engineering
Howard N. Potts Medal
John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium
IRI Medal
SPIE Gold Medal
National Inventors Hall of Fame Award
Vermilye Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society

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Edwin H. Land Life story

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was a Russian-American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things.