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Spread Spectrum Signaling: Beauty Belies Brains |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / IMPACTS |
| Author: Ruth Sellers |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 413 Words, 2,673 Characters |
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Dubbed by movie industry publicists "the most beautiful girl in the world," Hedy Lamarr also possessed a creative intelligence that laid the foundations for twenty-first century telecommunications.
Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, on No...
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... never received any money for their contribution to today's technology, Lamarr did live long enough to receive a degree of public recognition for her invention. In 1995, at a conference on computers, freedom, and privacy, her son received on her behalf an award from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation for "blazing new trails on the electronic frontier." Lamarr died on January 18, 2000.
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