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Dr. Valerie L. Thomas was born in 1943, is an African American scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. Dr. Thomas was responsible for developing the digital media formats image processing systems used in the early years of the Landsat program.
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