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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
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Physics and Natural Law
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Why Is the Sky Blue?
baby girl with toy bunny rabbit.
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Edwin Herbert Land: References & Edit History

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First paragraph modernization. Mar 20, 2024
Anniversary information added. Feb 26, 2024
Anniversary information added. May 03, 2023
Modified age appropriateness: American Chemical Society - Biography of Edwin Land. Feb 19, 2021
Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Edwin Herbert Land. Feb 05, 2021
Add new Web site: American Chemical Society - Biography of Edwin Land. Feb 07, 2019
Add new Web site: The National Academies Press - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. Feb 06, 2019
Add new Web site: The Optical Society - Biography of Edwin H. Land. Dec 26, 2016
Add new Web site: Scottish Science Hall of Fame - Biography of James Clerk Maxwell. Dec 26, 2016
Add new Web site: ConnecticutHistory.org - Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Born – Today in History: May 7. Dec 26, 2016
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Edwin H. Land Is Dead at 81; Inventor of Polaroid Camera. Dec 26, 2016
Added new Web site: History.com - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. May 01, 2009
Added new Web site: The Robinson Library - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. May 01, 2009
Added new Web site: TIME - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. May 01, 2009
Added new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. May 01, 2009
Added new Web site: National Inventors Hall of Fame - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. Apr 30, 2009
Added new Web site: The National Academies Press - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. Apr 30, 2009
Added new Web site: The Great Idea Finder - Biography of Edwin Herbert Land. Apr 30, 2009
Media added. Aug 04, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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