Robert Adamson Biography

Robert Adamson biography

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NAME: Robert Adamson
OCCUPATION: Photographer, Chemist
BIRTH DATE: April 26, 1821
DEATH DATE: January 14, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH: Burnside, Fife (near St. Andrews), Scotland, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Robert Adamson was a Scottish chemist and photographer who is best known for producing 2500 Calotype photographic prints with painter David Octavius Hill.

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Born in Burnside, Fife (near St. Andrews), Scotland, on April 26, 1821, Robert Adamson was a chemist and pioneer in photography. In 1843, Adamson helped David Hill apply the Calotype process of making photographic prints on silver chloride paper. Working together, they produced some 2500 Calotypes, mainly portraits but also landscapes (1843–48). Adamson died on January 14, 1848, in St. Andrews, Scotland.