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Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
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business · American physicist and inventor (1906–1968) · physicist · inventor · patent attorney · businessperson · also Chester Carlson, Chester Floyd Carlson, Carlson
Born 8 February 1906 · Died 19 September 1968 · Q468452
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“was looked up to by her sisters as one of the wisest.”
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New York City honored Carlson's legacy by officially co-naming 37th Street in Queens, New York — where his first makeshift lab was — after him
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Published “The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans” in JAMA — cited 5,508 times.
Published “The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data” in Nature Methods — cited 8,421 times.
Published “Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 4,478 times.
Published “Software for Computing and Annotating Genomic Ranges” in PLoS Computational Biology — cited 4,551 times.
Published “The Genome of Black Cottonwood, <i>Populus trichocarpa</i> (Torr. & Gray)” in Science — cited 3,748 times.
Published “Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition.” in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice — cited 3,908 times.
Published “Reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion without craniectomy in rats.” in Stroke — cited 6,358 times.
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1981).
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Carlson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Died 1968-09-19.
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Won Holley Medal (1968).
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Fortune magazine ranked Carlson among the wealthiest people in America
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Made a particularly large donation that helped fund one of the first endowed chairs at the university
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Because of the success of the Xerox 914, the company changed its name again, to Xerox Corporation
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Reflecting the fact that xerography was now the company's main line of business
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The company purchased a large parcel of land in the Rochester suburb of Webster, New York; this site would eventually become the company's main research-and-development campus
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Haloid signed a new agreement with Battelle granting it full title to Carlson's xerography patents, in exchange for fifty thousand shares of Haloid stock
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Carlson's royalties from Battelle amounted to about $15,000 (in current terms, $190,000)
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It shipped the first commercial photocopier: the XeroX Model A Copier, known inside the company as the "Ox Box
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Ten years to the day after that first microscope slide was copied, the Haloid Company made the first public announcement of xerography
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Haloid's CEO, Joseph Wilson, convinced the U
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Carlson was becoming worried that Battelle was not developing electrophotography quickly enough; his patent would expire in ten years
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Carlson described the marriage as "an unhappy period interspersed with sporadic escapes." They were divorced in 1945.
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The Patent Office issued Carlson's patent on electrophotography
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Carlson began to study law at night at New York Law School, receiving his LL
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During the Great Depression, Carlson was fired from Bell Labs for participating in a failed "business scheme" outside of the Labs with several other employees
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At the beginning of the Great Depression
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In hopes of gaining riches through what Carlson described as "a crazy American land colonization scheme," Ellen contracted malaria
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Born 1906-02-08.
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