John William Draper

Draper was born on May 5, 1811 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He was a doctor, historian, chemist, and professor. He conducted landmark reserch into spectrum analysis and radiant light and heat, and showed that chlorine gas is altered by exposure to sunlight. He took the first detailed magnified photographs of the moon. He was the first president of the American Chemical Society, and a founder of the New York University School of Medicine. Draper also worked off of Louis Daguerre, whose work had allowed slow exposures of landscapes. After repeated falures, he finally accomplished the first photograph of a humans face. His sisters to be exact, Dorthy Catherie Draper in 1839. He also used a camera made of a cigar box and an eyelass lens in 1840, and opened his first photographic portrait studio. One of his students was Matthew Brady, another famous photographer. Draper passed away on January 4, 1882 in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.

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