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== Awards, honors, and tributes == On January 7, 1939, Hedy Lamarr was selected the "most promising new actress" of 1938 in a poll of [[Philadelphia]] film fans conducted by Elsie Finn, the ''[[Philadelphia Record]]'' film critic.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Philly's Best|journal=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]]|date=January 7, 1939|page=30-C|url=https://archive.org/stream/boxofficejanmar134unse#page/n33/mode/2up/search/hedy+lamarr+most+promising+new+actress}}</ref> On January 26, 1939, Lamar was chosen the "ideal type" of woman in a poll of both male and female students conducted by the [[Pomona College]] newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hedy Lamarr Chosen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kE0bAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+poll&pg=PA33&article_id=4465,7535143 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=January 26, 1939 |page=15}}</ref> On May 9, 1939, Lamarr was named the "most beautiful actress" in "a secret poll of 30 Hollywood correspondents" conducted by the American magazine ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=BETTE DAVIS AND CLARK GABLE BEST LIKED BY WRITERS |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiQfAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+voted&pg=PA25&article_id=5291,4950744 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=Victoria Daily Advocate |date=May 9, 1939 |page=3}}</ref> On August 30, 1940, Lamarr won "top honors for facial features" in a poll of 400 members of the California Models Association.<ref>{{cite news |title=Models Find Lack of Perfect Girls |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeJXAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+honors&pg=PA38&article_id=5251,6757312 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=August 30, 1940 |page=12}}</ref> In December 1943, makeup expert [[Max Factor, Jr.]] included Lamarr among the ten glamorous Hollywood actresses with the most appealing voices.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Erskine |title=Who'll Win Oscars This Year? All Hollywood Is Speculating! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilcbAAAAIBAJ&dq=hedy+lamarr+award&pg=PA28&article_id=4236,4717646 |access-date=February 1, 2025 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=December 26, 1943 |page=28}}</ref> In 1951, British moviegoers voted Lamarr the year's 10th best actress, for her performance in ''[[Samson and Delilah (1949 film)|Samson and Delilah]]''.<ref name="Anna Neagle's Film Award">{{cite news|title=Anna Neagle's Film Award|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27035762?searchTerm=Hedy%20Lamarr%20award&searchLimits=|access-date=February 24, 2018|work=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]]|issue=May 10, 1951}}</ref> In 1960, Lamarr was honored with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for her contributions to the motion picture industry.<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 25, 2019|title=Hedy Lamarr|url=https://walkoffame.com/hedy-lamarr/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=Hollywood Walk of Fame|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1997, Lamarr and [[George Antheil]] were jointly honored with the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]'s [[EFF Pioneer Award|Pioneer Award]]<ref name="EFF1997">{{cite press release|title=Movie Legend Hedy Lamarr to be Given Special Award at EFF's Sixth Annual Pioneer Awards|publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=March 11, 1997|url=http://w2.eff.org/awards/pioneer/1997.php|access-date=February 1, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016063043/http://w2.eff.org/awards/pioneer/1997.php|archive-date=October 16, 2007}}</ref> and Lamarr also was the first woman to receive the Invention Convention's BULBIE Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, known as the "Oscars of inventing".<ref name="INVENTION CONVENTION ยฎ - Gateway to the World of Inventing 1942">{{cite web |title=1940's Film Goddess Hedy Lamarr Responsible For Pioneering Spread Spectrum |website=INVENTION CONVENTION ยฎ โ Gateway to the World of Inventing |url=http://inventionconvention.com/americasinventor/dec97issue/section2.html |access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625011848/http://www.inventionconvention.com/americasinventor/dec97issue/section2.html |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp|title=Hedy Lamarr: Invention of Spread Spectrum Technology|website=women-inventors.com|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112075258/http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp|archive-date=November 12, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dolor |first=Danny |title=The other side of Hedy Lamarr |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2018/03/11/1795482/other-side-hedy-lamarr |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref> given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|title=Honorary grave for Hollywood pin-up|date=November 7, 2014|access-date=November 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110175931/http://www.thelocal.at/20141107/hollywood-pinup-and-inventor-given-vienna-grave|archive-date=November 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The following year, Lamarr's native Austria awarded her the Viktor Kaplan Medal of the Austrian Association of Patent Holders and Inventors.<ref>{{Citation | last = Peterson | first = Barbara Bennett | contribution = Lamarr, Hedy | title = American National Biography | date = April 2001}}</ref> In 2006, the ''Hedy-Lamarr-Weg'' was founded in Vienna [[Meidling]] (12th District), named after the actress. In 2013, the [[IQOQI]] installed a [[quantum telescope]] on the roof of the [[University of Vienna]], which they named after her in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Auf den Spuren einer Hollywood-Diva |trans-title=In the footsteps of a Hollywood diva |language=de |url=https://www.pressreader.com/austria/kleine-zeitung-steiermark/20210622/281672552905172 |access-date=2021-11-15 |via=PressReader}}</ref> In 2014, Lamarr was posthumously inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] for frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=501|title=Inductee Detail {{!}} National Inventors Hall of Fame |work=National Inventors Hall of Fame |access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022910/http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=501 |archive-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The same year, Anthony Loder's request that the remaining ashes of his mother should be buried in an honorary grave of the city of [[Vienna]] was realized. On November 7, her urn was buried at the [[Wiener Zentralfriedhof|Vienna Central Cemetery]] in Group 33 G, Tomb No. 80, not far from the centrally located presidential tomb.<ref name=Ehrengrab/><ref name=VDFW/> On November 9, 2015, [[Google]] honored her on the 101st anniversary of her birth, and on her 109th on November 9, 2023 with a [[Google Doodle|doodle]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 9, 2015|title=Hedy Lamarr: Ein Kino-Orgasmus, eine bahnbrechende Erfindung, 101. Geburtstag|url=https://www.giga.de/webapps/google-suche/news/hedy-lamarr-die-schoenste-frau-der-welt-hat-geburtstag/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=GIGA|language=de}}</ref> On August 27, 2019, an asteroid was named after her: [[32730 Lamarr]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=IAU Minor Planet Center|url=https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=32730|access-date=2021-11-15|website=minorplanetcenter.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Small-Body Database Lookup|url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=32730|access-date=2021-11-15|website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov}}</ref> On August 6, 2023 ''[[Star Trek: Prodigy]]'' showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman debuted the first five minutes of footage from season two, showing the new Lamarr-class USS Voyager-A, in tribute to her.<ref>{{Cite web|title=First Look Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 2, Episode 1|url=https://www.startrek.com/videos/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-first-look|access-date=2024-04-07|website=startrek.com}}</ref>
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