Born to Armenian parents , Luther Simjian grew up in Aintab , Ottoman Empire . He was separated from his family in the Armenian Genocide . Simjian first went to Beirut , later to Marseille . In 1920 he emigrated to the United States , where he found shelter with relatives in New Haven , Connecticut . Beginning at the age of 15 , he worked there as a photographer . He gave up his initial plans of studying medicine when he was engaged as a laboratory photographer by the Yale School of Medicine . Later , in 1928 , he became director of their photography department , and invented several machines such as a projector for microscope images
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Luther George Simjian