Summary Lamarr was an actress as well as a physician who co-invented spectrum
LAHORE (Web Desk) – Google on Monday 9th of November celebrated the 105th birthday of a great lady named Lady Lamarr by dedicating Doodle of the day to her. Lady Lamarr was an amazingly beautiful actress of Hollywood as well as a physician who co-invented spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology which became the basic of today’s wifi technology.
Many great women had played a great role on many turning points of history. Women were not allowed to study science until some centuries back. But when they did join a field, they proved to be the very equals of men.
Lady Lamarr was born on 9th of November 1914 in Austria. She started her acting career in Germany in her teen years but she got married early in her career. But unfortunately her husband was extremely insecure and a control freak so she soon fled from him and reached Paris where she resumed he acting career. Lady Lamarr’s acting career remained very successful until 1949 and she was named as the world’s most beautiful woman. She played the leading roles in movies against the best male actors of the time.
As the World War II started, she was requested to use her celebrity status to sell war bonds, which she did successfully but she wanted to do more in order to defeat Nazis. She was from a Jew family and this fact made her hate Nazis even more. Lady Lamarr was inspired to contribute to the war, and focused her efforts on countering torpedoes. She devoted a room to drafting her designs for frequency-hopping in her home. Lamarr and Antheil discussed the fact that radio-controlled torpedoes, while important in the naval war, could easily be jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, causing the torpedo to go off course.
Lamarr s and Antheil s frequency-hopping idea served as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as GPS, Bluetooth, COFDM (used in Wi-Fi network connections), and CDMA (used in some cordless and wireless cell phones).
Lammar married and divorced six men and had three children. She died on 19 January, 2000 in Florida. Her son Anthony Loder took her ashes to Austria and spread them in the Vienna Woods, in accordance with her last wishes. Lamarr was given an honorary grave in Vienna s Central Cemetery in 2014.
