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Edwin H. Land

1909 - 1991

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Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin H. Land has received more than 553,188 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edwin H. Land is the 376th most popular physicist (up from 399th in 2019), the 2,530th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,841st in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edwin H. Land ranks 376 out of 717. Before him are Franz Aepinus, Carl Wieman, Maurice de Broglie, Arpad Elo, Giovanni Aldini, and Johanna Budwig. After him are Vladimir Chelomey, Ányos Jedlik, Henri Tresca, Robert W. Wood, Lyman Spitzer, and Chester Carlson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Edwin H. Land ranks 90. Before him are Kinuyo Tanaka, Juan Carlos Onetti, Ryszard Siwiec, William M. Branham, Stavros Niarchos, and Shigeo Shingo. After him are Eduard Wirths, Atsushi Nakajima, Matti Järvinen, Adolfo López Mateos, Nelson Algren, and August Derleth. Among people deceased in 1991, Edwin H. Land ranks 76. Before him are Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Pedro Arrupe, Berenice Abbott, Edmond Jabès, and Rudolf Serkin. After him are Héctor Rial, Ernst Krenek, Carmine Coppola, Cassandra Harris, Yevgeny Dragunov, and Richard Thorpe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin H. Land ranks 2,530 out of 18,182. Before him are George Hamilton (1939), Gordon Cooper (1927), Ronald Inglehart (1934), Kelly Bishop (1944), Ariana Grande (1993), and Tony Robbins (1960). After him are Jason Newsted (1963), Jerry Fodor (1935), Lizzie Borden (1860), Katie Holmes (1978), Beverly D'Angelo (1951), and George William Hill (1838).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin H. Land ranks 78. Before him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Nick Holonyak (1928), Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), and Carl Wieman (1951). After him are Robert W. Wood (1868), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Chester Carlson (1906), Philip Abelson (1913), Leonard Susskind (1940), and Douglas Hofstadter (1945).

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