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Edwin Herbert Land fue un científico e inventor estadounidense. Estudió química en la universidad de Harvard.

En 1928, desarrolló el primer filtro polarizador sintético. Como no estaba vinculado formalmente a ninguna universidad o entidad de investigación, debía usar en la noche los laboratorios de la Universidad de Columbia. Tras varios años de trabajo, en 1932 fundaría los Laboratorios Land-Wheelwright, que en 1935 adoptaron la denominación de Polaroid.

La comercialización del producto comenzó en 1937. Tenía tantas aplicaciones que pronto tuvo gran éxito, siendo usado incluso por los militares, de los cuales se convirtió en un importante suministrador durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, su invención más importante ocurrió en tiempos de paz.

En 1947 sorprendió al mundo presentando ante la Sociedad Óptica Estadounidense la primera fotografía instantánea: una cámara que revelaba en positivo la imagen en tan solo 60 segundos. Este invento fue el buque insignia de la empresa hasta la aparición de la fotografía digital.

En la década de 1950, ayudaron a desarrollar los instrumentos ópticos del avión espía Lockheed U-2. También desarrollaron la proyección con el sistema de dos colores para lograr todo el espectro.

En 1957 la Universidad de Harvard le concedió el doctorado honoris causa. Después de 1970 difundió su teoría de la "constancia del color" o Retinex. Fue un defensor de la acción afirmativa para defender los derechos civiles de los afroamericanos. Popularmente era conocido por "hacer un experimento diario" y ser un "científico muy rico" [1]. Después de fracasar un sistema de filmación instantánea desarrollado por Polaroid, renunció a la presidencia de la compañía. Tras su retiro fundó el Rowland Institute for Science, a cuyo éxito dedicó los últimos años de su vida. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. mayo 1909 – 1. marzo 1991
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“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had.”

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"A Talk with Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land" in Forbes Vol. 115, No. 7 (1 April 1975), p. 49

“One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.”

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Address to Polaroid employees at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (5 February 1960), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 7
Land was not the first to make such observations; in One Man in His Time (1922), p. 162, Ellen Glasgow has a character state:
Half the time when he is telling the truth, it sounds like a joke, and that keeps people from believing him. He says the best way to keep a secret is to shout it from the housetops; and I've heard him say things straight out that sounded so far fetched nobody would think he was in earnest. I was the only person who knew that he was speaking the truth.

“The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.”

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Generation of Greatness (1957)

“We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.”

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Statement to Polaroid Corporation employes (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 189

“A contemporary man who has not participated intimately in actual work in science is, in my opinion, not a modern man. I believe that this experience in science should come early in the life of all of our pupils.”

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Generation of Greatness (1957)

“In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.”

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Address to Polaroid employees at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (5 February 1960), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 198

“Who can object to a monopoly when there are several thousands of them? Who can object to a monopoly when every few years the company enjoying the monopoly revises, alters, perhaps even discards its product, in order to supply a superior one to the public? Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?”

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p, 125
Research by the Business Itself (1945)

“There are areas where untrained people may work effectively and with limited equipment. Our pupil doesn't need a big laboratory to do this, he needs freedom; he needs encouragement.”

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Generation of Greatness (1957)

“What do I mean by the Generation of Greatness?
I mean that in this age, in this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.”

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Generation of Greatness (1957)

“Now, partly that was work, and partly that was brains, but very largely it was having the guts, the guts to be immodest in the right way.”

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On the growth of Polaroid, in a statement to employees (25 June 1958), as quoted in Insisting on the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land (1998) by Victor K. McElheny, p. 198

“There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.”

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Comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting, as quoted in The Icarus Paradox : How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal (1990) by Danny Miller, p. 126

“I would urge that just as democracy initially meant the right of man to defend himself, to have a sword, and then meant the right to write, and then meant the right to read — so, now, democracy means the right to have the scientific experience.”

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Generation of Greatness (1957)

“My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

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As quoted in "The Vindication of Edwin Land" in Forbes magazine, Vol. 139 (4 May 1987) p. 83; this was later humorously altered:
Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Edwin Ladd, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University (August, 1990), as quoted by Lincoln J. Greenhill at Harvard University http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~lincoln/