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  Adolphe-Alexandre Martin

Born in Paris in 1824, Adolphe-Alexandre Martin developed a fascination with photography at an early age and became an accomplished amateur photographer.

While serving as a professor of chemistry and physics at Paris' College Sainte-Barbe, the young educator was also a committee member of the Royal Photographic Society. Dr. Martin conducted several laboratory experiments on light as a student of physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault.

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Professor Foucault received international attention when he demonstrated how the earth rotates on its axis by suspending a pendulum from the dome of the Parisian Pantheon. Dr. Martin assisted Professor Foucault in the construction of the Paris Observatory's Great Telescope.

During this period, Dr. Martin was also independently working on modifying the ambrotype photographic process developed by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer. In his variation of the wet collodion technique, Dr. Martin placed a clear prote