biography
| name: |
Edgerton, Harold E(ugene)
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pronunciation:
[ejerton]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–90)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Fremont, Nebraska, USA. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where in 1934 he became professor of electrical engineering. A specialist in stroboscopes and high-speed photography, he produced a krypton-xenon gas arc which was employed in photographing the capillaries in the white of the eye without hurting the patient. |
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