Valerie Thomas

Valerie L. Thomas is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.

8 February 1943

Born on the same birth date (8 February 1943): Creed Bratton

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