Frederick Scott Archer
Photographer, Inventor
1813 – 1857
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Who was Frederick Scott Archer?
Frederick Scott Archer invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. He was born in either Bishop's Stortford or more likely Hertford in the United Kingdom and is remembered mainly for this single achievement which greatly increased the accessibility of photography for the general public.
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- Born
- 1813
Bishop's Stortford - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Bishop's Stortford
- Died
- May 1, 1857
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on July 23, 2013
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