Editing Doc Edgerton (section)

{{short description|American engineer and inventor (1903-1990)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name              = Harold Eugene Edgerton
|image             = Doc Edgerton, 1963.jpg
|image_size       =150px
|caption           = Edgerton in 1963
|birth_date        = {{birth date text|April 6, 1903|April 6, 1903}}
|birth_place       = [[Fremont, Nebraska]]
|death_date        = {{Death date and age|1990|01|04|1903|04|06}}
|death_place       = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts
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|field             = Engineering/photography
|work_institutions = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
|alma_mater        = [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]] {{small|(BS, Electrical Engineering, 1925)}}<br />[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] {{small|(MS, Electrical Engineering, 1927; ScD, Electrical Engineering, 1931)}}
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|known_for         = [[Stroboscope]]
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|prizes            = [[SPIE Gold Medal]] {{small|(1981)}}
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'''Harold Eugene''' "'''Doc'''" '''Edgerton''' (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as '''Papa Flash''', was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of [[electrical engineering]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Gray, Paul E.|title=Obituary: Harold E. Edgerton|journal=Physics Today|date=April 1991|volume=44|issue=4|pages=126–128|doi=10.1063/1.2810095|doi-access=free}}</ref> He is largely credited with transforming the [[stroboscope]] from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device.  He also was deeply involved with the development of [[sonar]] and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with [[Jacques Cousteau]] in searches for shipwrecks and even the [[Loch Ness Monster]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/edgerton.html|title=Project History: Harold Edgerton and Side-Scan Sonar|website=web.mit.edu|access-date=January 12, 2014|archive-date=May 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523122244/http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/edgerton.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>