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Nadar

American

[nah-dahr, na-dar] / nɑˈdɑr, naˈdær /

noun

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910, French journalist and pioneer of aerial photography.

Nadar British

/ nadar /

noun

real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon . 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)

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Vikash Kumar, 42, assistant professor of design at Shiv Nadar University outside Delhi, taught Sarthak Mittal, 29, during his undergraduate years.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

In one, photography pioneer Félix Nadar pictured an intersex person from the neck down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

In June and July 2022 the NYU group, led by cardiac surgeon Nadar Moazami, transplanted two genetically modified pig hearts into deceased recipients.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

He’s also designed the forthcoming Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, a vast contemporary art museum to be built in Delhi.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

M. Nadar had been editor of L'Aeronaut, a French journal devoted to the advancement of aerostation generally.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by Bacon, John Mackenzie

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