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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 19301958
Spouse(s) Fritz Mandl
(m. 19331937; divorced)
Gene Markey
(m. 19391941; divorced; 1 child)
John Loder
(m. 19431947; divorced; 2 children)
Teddy Stauffer
(m. 19511952; divorced)
W. Howard Lee
(m. 19531960; divorced)
Lewis J. Boies
(m. 19631965; 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
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)- Hedy Lamarr
She was an amazing person, and obviously with a good sense of humor!
(One small thing... FHSS is used by Bluetooth, but I don't think by Wi-Fi. Don't know about CDMA.)
niyad
(113,553 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)What a tremendous mind ... I work with her inventions as they form the basis of our systems ...
Happy Birthday Hedy (I always think of Harvey Korman when I say her name) ...
niyad
(113,553 posts)sdfernando
(4,941 posts)niyad
(113,553 posts)merrily
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