| Edwin H. Land  AKA Edwin Herbert Land
Born: 7-May-1909
Birthplace: Bridgeport, CT
Died: 1-Mar-1991
Location of death: Cambridge, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Inventor, Business Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Polaroid Land Camera Inventor of the polaroid filter, and of instant photography.
Father: Harry Land (scrap metal recycler, d. 1965)
Mother: Matha Goldfaden
Sister: Helen
Wife: Helen Terre Maislen (m. 1929, two daughters)
Daughter: Jennifer Land Dubois
Daughter: Valerie Land Smallwood
High School: Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT
University: Harvard University (one year)
Polaroid Founder (1937)
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1961-77)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1943, President (1951-53)
National Academy of Sciences 1953
American Philosophical Society 1957
National Academy of Engineering 1965
Royal Institution of Great Britain 1975
IEEE Honorary (1980)
Royal Society 1986
Cosmos Club Award 1970
Rumford Prize 1945
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1963
National Medal of Science 1967
National Medal of Technology and Innovation 1988
National Inventors Hall of Fame 1977
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