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Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria in 1914.
* She began her acting career in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
* In 1933, she starred in the controversial film Ecstasy, which featured the first nude scene in a major motion picture.
* She fled her first husband, an Austrian munitions manufacturer, and moved to the United States in 1937.
* In 1942, she co-invented a frequency hopping spread spectrum communication system that is considered to be a precursor to modern wireless communication technologies.
* Her invention was not widely adopted during World War II, but it was later used in military applications and is now used in a wide variety of commercial products, including Bluetooth, GPS, and Wi-Fi.
* She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
* She died in Florida in 2000 at the age of 85.
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