Doc Edgerton
American scientist
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an... Wikipedia
Born: April 6, 1903, Fremont, NE
Died: January 4, 1990 (age 86 years), Cambridge, MA
Known for: Stroboscope
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1927) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1925)
Award: SPIE Gold Medal (1981)
Spouse: Esther Garret (m. 1928)
Fields: Engineering/photography