Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990) was 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.
Some of Edgertons noted photographs are:
- Football Kick (1938)
- Diver (1955)
- Milk Drop Coronet (1957)
- Cranberry Juice into Milk (1960)
- Moscow Circles (1963)
- Bullet Through Banana (1964) [13]
- .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple (1964)
- Cutting the Card Quickly (1964)
- Pigeon Release (1965)
- Bullet Through Candle Flame (1973) (with Kim Vandiver)