Simon, Myron S. (Sydney), 1926-

Simon was born in Burlington, Vt. on September 23, 1926. He entered Harvard University in 1943, received his bachelor's degree in 1946, his master's degree in 1948, and his Ph. D. in Chemistry in 1949. During his education at Harvard, he worked with many notable chemists, including Paul D. Bartlett and Gilbert Stork. His research was completed under Robert Burns Woodward. He began working for the Polaroid Corporation in 1949. He worked with photographic chemistry and the chemistry of dyes. He developed the "Chemical Curtain," which protects SX-70 pictures while they are developing in light. In 1989, he founded Image-Ination Associates.

In 1949 upon graduation from Harvard where he was a Ph.D. candidate under R.B. Woodward, Myron S. Simon began his thirty-nine year career at Polaroid taking employment as a research scientist. He was granted over seventy U.S. patents becoming a specialist in instant color photography and the problems relating to the opacification process. Myron S. Simon retired from Polaroid Corporation in 1988 but remained active as a consultant.