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): Alexander Herzen • Christopher Allsopp • Christos Sartzetakis • Guillaume Bigourdan • Huang Xiaomin • J. G. Parry-Thomas • Mitsuru Nagata • Nikolas Asprogenis • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Ryota Moriwaki • Vince Flynn • William Bate Hardy

Born in the same month (April 1903): Gregor Piatigorsky • Henry Corbin • Jan Tinbergen • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay • Lionel Chevrier • Luis Saslavsky • M. Balasundaram • Marion Aye • Mickey Cochrane