Harold Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903. Although his family moved to Washington, D.C., due to his father's career with the federal government, the family eventually returned to their native Nebraska. After earning an electrical...

1903-1990 Electrical engineer who developed the use of stroboscopic photography. Edgerton studied electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska, then went on to complete his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1931 he...

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, Sc.D. (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory...