Date of Birth
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06-April-1903
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Place of Birth
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Aurora
(Hamilton County, Nebraska, United States of America)
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Nationality
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Also know as
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Doc Edgerton, Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton, Harold Edgerton
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Profession
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Photographer
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Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness monster.
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