Doc Edgerton

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.

6 April 1903

Born on the same birth date (6 April 1903): Mickey Cochrane

Born on the same birth day (6 April): Andrei Veis • Andy Phillips (baseball) • Black Francis • James Watson • Jean-Baptiste Rousseau • Maria of Portugal, Marchioness of Tortosa • Paolo Nespoli • Pedro Armendáriz Jr. • Tadeusz Kantor

Born in the same month (April 1903): Andrey Kolmogorov • Clare Turlay Newberry • Edwin T. Layton • Guy Simonds • Henry Corbin • John Williams (actor) • José Antonio Primo de Rivera • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay • Luis Saslavsky • Mickey Cochrane • Morgan Taylor • Nicolas Nabokov • Patroklos Karantinos • Paul Waner • Ruth Svedberg • Ward Bond