Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,306 times.
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Edwin Stanton Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great T…
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science · American film pioneer (1870–1941) · film director · camera operator · cinematographer · screenwriter · film producer · inventor · also Edwin Stanton Porter, Edwin S. Porter, Edwin Porter, Porter
Born 21 April 1870 · Died 30 April 1941 · Q347864
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2012· 1 entry
Published “The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity” in Nature — cited 7,272 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Published “Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship” in Journal of Economic Perspectives — cited 10,542 times.
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1990· 1 entry
Published “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” — cited 10,458 times.
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1941· 2 entries
Died 1941-04-30.
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At the Hotel Taft in New York City and was buried in Husband Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania
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1925· 1 entry
Continued to work on his own as an inventor and designer, securing several patents for still cameras and projector devices
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1916· 1 entry
Left Famous Players during a reorganization
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1912· 1 entry
Sold out and accepted an offer from Adolph Zukor to become chief director of the new Famous Players Film Company, the first American company that regularly produced feature-length films
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1911· 1 entry
Joined with others in organizing the Rex Motion Picture Company
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1910· 1 entry
Founded Defender Film Company, which folded after one year
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1909· 1 entry
After tiring of the industrial system set up to feed the booming nickelodeon business, Porter left Edison and founded a company to manufacture Simplex motion picture projectors
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1905· 1 entry
It was the premier attraction at the first nickelodeon
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1896· 1 entry
The first year movies were commercially projected on large screens in the United States
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-04-21.
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