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Mungo Ponton

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British photography pioneer (1801-1880)

ScientistsLived 1801 to 1880 · aged 78
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Mungo Ponton FRS FRSE was a Scottish inventor who in 1839 created a method of permanent photography based on potassium dichromate.

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Mungo PontonMungo PontonPonton's house at 30 Melville Street, EdinburghPonton's house at 30 Melville Street, EdinburghA plate of drawings of pollen from Ponton's book The Beginning: Its When and Its How (1871)[7]A plate of drawings of pollen from Ponton's book The Beginning: Its When and Its How (1871)[7]

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Scientists born in the 1800s 6

Anna Thynne39.7Frederick Bakewell39.6Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst39.8Heinrich Buff39.5Alexandre Grigorievitch Fischer von Waldheim39.8Jean Kickx39.5

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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1801 to 1880 · aged 78
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8 languages

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