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Edwin H. Land
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American scientist and inventor (1909–1991)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Died
- 1991
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Selected papers on industry
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Known for
- Mr. Polaroid — Self (archive footage)2025
- Instant Dreams — Self - The Visionary (archive footage)2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 51
- Cited by
- 9,905
Research areas
Most cited works
- Lightness and Retinex Theory1971 · 3,986 cit
- The Retinex Theory of Color Vision1977 · 2,852 cit
- An alternative technique for the computation of the designator in the retinex theory of color vision.1986 · 626 cit
- Recent advances in retinex theory and some implications for cortical computations: color vision and the natural image.1983 · 576 cit
- Recent advances in retinex theory1986 · 478 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification
· 2010 · cited 11,857x
- A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff
· 2012 · cited 11,286x
- The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution.
· 1955 · cited 7,414x
- Regression Diagnostics
· 1980 · cited 6,515x
- The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule—Generic: A Standard Measure of Social and Communication Deficits Associated with the Spectrum of Autism
· 2000 · cited 6,320x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.”
- “Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.”
- “One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.”
- “In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.”
- “The world is a scene changing so rapidly that it takes every bit of intuitive ability you have, every brain cell each one of you has, to make the sensible decision about what to do next. You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.”
- “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Edwin Herbert Land , May 7, 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- March 1, 1991 (1991-03-01) (aged 81), Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Resting place
- Mount Auburn Cemetery , U.S.
- Known for
- Polarizing film Land instant camera
- Spouse
- Helen Maislen, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 )
- Fields
- Optics, polarization, color vision
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in one minute or less.
Land received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the IRI Medal in 1965, the Perkin Medal in 1974, the Harold Pender Award in 1979, and the National Medal of Technology in 1988. He was also renowned outside of his home country, being a member of England's Royal Photographic Society, Royal Institution, and Royal Society (receiving Fellowship of the latter).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edwin H. Land” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.