Background
Robert was in 1901, in Kiel, Germany.
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Robert Koslowsky
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Koslowsky attended the Hebbelschule and studied chemistry at Kiel University, returning after 1925 for doctoral studies.
Career
From 1923 to 1925 Koslowsky worked as a laboratory assistant in the Gesellschaft fur Chemische Industrie in Basel, Switzerland. Koslowsky received the Gold Medal of the Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna in 1953.
Koslowsky joined Agfa in Wolfen, Germany, in 1928. He first worked in the scientific laboratory for a year, then transferred to film manufacture and to the sensitization laboratory. Koslowsky's discoveries included the use of complex gold salts to increase emulsion sensitivity without graininess, 1936, and new classes of panchromatic sensitizers, 1931, resulting in the progress of high-speed, fine-grain photo emulsions.
The 1936 invention was kept as a trade secret and not patented. After World War II the British and Americans disclosed it while publishing German patents and trade secrets.
Achievements
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Publications Books: Quellendarstellungen zur Geschichte der Fotografie, Wolfgang Baier, 1964; From Dry Plates to Ektachrome Film, С. E. K. Mees, 1961 (Ziff-Davis: NYC]. Anthology: Photography's Great Inventors, Louis W. Sipley, 1965 Periodicals: Photographische Correspondenz, 1953; Scienceet Industries Photographiques, 1951; Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Photographie, 1951.
