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niyad

(113,344 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 10:51 PM Nov 2015

have you all seen the google doodle today--hedy lamarr's 101st birthday-actor, inventor

Hedy Lamarr

Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
9 November 1914[a]
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died 19 January 2000 (aged 85)
Casselberry, Florida, U.S.
Citizenship Austria
United States (from 1953)
Occupation Actress, inventor
Years active 1930–1958
Spouse(s) Fritz Mandl
(m. 1933–1937; divorced)
Gene Markey
(m. 1939–1941; divorced; 1 child)
John Loder
(m. 1943–1947; divorced; 2 children)
Teddy Stauffer
(m. 1951–1952; divorced)
W. Howard Lee
(m. 1953–1960; divorced)
Lewis J. Boies
(m. 1963–1965; divorced)

Hedy Lamarr (/ˈhɛdi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000)[a] was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor.[1] After an early and brief film career in Germany, which included a controversial love-making scene in the film Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood, where she became a film star from the late 1930s to the 1950s.[2]

Lamarr appeared in numerous popular feature films, including Algiers (1938) with Charles Boyer, I Take This Woman (1940) with Spencer Tracy, Comrade X (1940) with Clark Gable, Come Live With Me (1941) with James Stewart, H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) with Robert Young, and Samson and Delilah (1949) with Victor Mature.[3] Director Max Reinhardt called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe," a sentiment widely shared by her audiences and critics.[4][5][6]

At the beginning of World War II, with composer George Antheil, Lamarr developed spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat jamming of Allied radio communications by the Axis.[7] Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology,[8][9][10] and this work led to her being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.[7][11]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

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have you all seen the google doodle today--hedy lamarr's 101st birthday-actor, inventor (Original Post) niyad Nov 2015 OP
"Exceptionalism" is usually from somewhere else n/t UTUSN Nov 2015 #1
... spanone Nov 2015 #2
What the hell you are you worried about? iandhr Nov 2015 #4
bwahahhahahahaa spanone Nov 2015 #5
LOL SoapBox Nov 2015 #9
I love it. It's wonderful. nt valerief Nov 2015 #3
She was absolutely gorgeous. And brilliant. closeupready Nov 2015 #6
Well, shit. Originally thought she may be alive tavernier Nov 2015 #7
Amazing woman! SunSeeker Nov 2015 #8
That's HEDLEY!!! MarianJack Nov 2015 #10
It's such a great example of oddball engineering ingenuity too. cemaphonic Nov 2015 #11
amazing to think about, for sure! niyad Nov 2015 #12
 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
6. She was absolutely gorgeous. And brilliant.
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 12:34 AM
Nov 2015

It's like, she was a walking embarrassment of riches, in every way. She didn't 'almost have it all' - she HAD it all. K&R

tavernier

(12,392 posts)
7. Well, shit. Originally thought she may be alive
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 12:51 AM
Nov 2015

and starring in a new sitcom with Betty White. But it appears that Amercan girls raised on bacon and nitrates live longer.
😄😄😄

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
11. It's such a great example of oddball engineering ingenuity too.
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 03:34 AM
Nov 2015

A pair of artists devised a system for defeating Nazi radar jamming using a bunch of player pianos, and along the way laid the groundwork for our modern global communications technology.

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