Chester Carlson
Physicist, Inventor
1906 – 1968
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Who was Chester Carlson?
Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by the mimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography, a term that literally means "dry writing."
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1906
Seattle - Also known as
- Chester Floyd Carlson
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- California Institute of Technology
- New York Law School
- Riverside Community College
- Employment
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lived in
- New York City
- Rochester
- Died
- Sep 19, 1968
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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