Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre was born November 18th, 1787 in Cormeilles, France. Daguerre was a painter and physicist, but he is most famously known for his invention of the daguerreotype. This process exposed a thin silver-plated copper sheet to the vapor given off by iodine crystals, producing a coating of light-sensitive silver iodide on the surface. The plate was then exposed in the camera. Daguerre soon became known as one of the fathers of photography.