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): Barys Kit • Carlton Mitchell • Feodor Lynen • Gordon Chater • Jean-Marc Boivin • Johann Georg Reutter • Louis de Cahusac • Max Bemis • Oscar Piastri • Pasquale Paoli • Randall Godfrey • Roger Cook (journalist) • William M. Branham

Born in the same month (April 1903): Andrey Kolmogorov • Edwin T. Layton • Eliot Ness • Guy Simonds • Henry Corbin • John Williams (actor) • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay • M. Balasundaram • Mickey Cochrane • Morgan Taylor • Patroklos Karantinos • Ruth Svedberg