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- Birth nameHarold Eugene Edgerton
- Harold E. Edgerton was born on April 6, 1903 in Fremont, Nebraska, USA. He is known for Invention! (1990), Horizon (1964) and Quicker'n a Wink (1940). He was married to Esther May Garrett. He died on January 4, 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseEsther May Garrett(1928 - January 4, 1990) (his death, 3 children)
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1986.
- Pioneer in the field of stroboscopic photography, which captures events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye (e.g., bullet in flight; collapse of a punctured balloon).
- Awarded the USA's National Medal of Science, 1973.
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