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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Bridgeport, Connecticut
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Inventor and physicist Edwin Land founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937, and introduced its instant camera in 1947.


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Born May 7, 1909, physicist and inventor Edwin Land attended Harvard University briefly before setting up his own laboratory to study light polarization and to create filters for sunglasses and cameras. He founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937 and introduced its instant camera with self-developing film in 1947. Harvard awarded Land an honorary degree in 1957.

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