STEAM in History: Barbara Askins
Chemist • 1978 National Inventor of the Year
Born 1939 • United States
Askins worked for NASA and is best known for inventing an emulsion method to bring out greater detail in underexposed film.
This process has been used to enhance many different kinds of photos, from images of space to x-ray scans.
Read more about Askins’s story in STEAM in History: Barbara Askinsopen_in_new.
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