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Edwin H. Land
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Edwin H. Land

Entrepreneur · Polaroid Corporation · born May 7, 1909 · died 1991

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Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

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  1. ~28Founded Polaroid Corporation1937
  2. ~54Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom1963
  3. ~58Received the National Medal of Science1967
  4. ~79Received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation1988

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