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  2. Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.

  3. Portal:Austria/Selected biography/42 - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age". Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping , necessary to ...

  4. Timeline of women in science - Wikipedia

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    2018: British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell received the special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her scientific achievements and "inspiring leadership", worth $3 million. She donated the entirety of the prize money towards the creation of scholarships to assist women, underrepresented minorities and refugees who are pursuing ...

  5. Google honors actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr with ... - AOL

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    Hedy Lamarr, who would've turned 101 on Nov. 9, started out as an actress in Vienna, Austria. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

  6. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story - Wikipedia

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    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (referred to onscreen as simply Bombshell) is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed, written and co-edited by Alexandra Dean, about the life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. It had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival [2] and released theatrically on November 24, 2017. [3]

  7. Frequency-hopping spread spectrum - Wikipedia

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    In 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received U.S. patent 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System", [9] [10] an early version of frequency hopping using a piano-roll to switch among 88 frequencies to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.

  8. Gal Gadot-Led ‘Hedy Lamarr’ Series From Sarah Treem ... - AOL

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    Hedy Lamarr, the Gal Gadot-led eight-episode limited series from The Affair co-creator Sarah Treem, The Handmaid’s Tale producer Warren Littlefield and Endeavor Content, has moved to Apple from ...

  9. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Austrian-American Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, together with musician and author George Antheil, developed a mechanism for radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. [80]