Dr. Edwin Herbert Land

Dr. Edwin Herbert Land

1909-1991

Inductee Sponsor: Polaroid Corporation

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Edwin Herbert Land was an American physicist and inventor credited with introducing the Polaroid Land Camera. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he entered Harvard University in 1926. While there, he became interested in polarized light (light oriented in a plane with respect to the source). He took a leave of absence from college and developed a new kind of polarizer, which he called Polaroid, by aligning and embedding crystals in a plastic sheet.

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