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Google celebrates Hedy Lamarr's 101 birthday with animated doodle

Google celebrates Hedy Lamarr's 101 birthday with animated doodle

| | 09 Nov 2015, 09:29 am
New York, Nov 9 (IBNS): Popular search engine Google on Monday remembered Austrian actress, scientist Hedy Lamarr on her 101st birthday with an animated doodle.

Born on Nov 9, 1914, Lamarr appeared in numerous popular feature films, including Algiers (1938) with Charles Boyer, I Take This Woman (1940) with Spencer Tracy, Comrade X (1940) with Clark Gable, Come Live With Me (1941).

During her first marriage, Lamarr developed an interest in applied science and utilized this knowledge as an inventor.

At the commencement of World War II, keen to aid the Allied war effort, she identified jamming of Allied radio communications by the Axis as a particular problem, and with composer George Antheil, developed spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat it.

Her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology.

Lamarr died in Casselberry, Florida, on 19 January 2000, aged 85.

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