William Henry Fox Talbot
1800-1877
English chemist and pioneer of photography who invented an early photographic technique called the talbotype, or calotype. This process used a sheet of paper coated ...
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William Henry Fox Talbot, the son of an army officer, received his master's degree from Cambridge University in 1825. In 1831, he was made a member of the British scientific society, the Royal Society...
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