- Stephen Benton
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birth_date =1 December ,1941
birth_place =San Francisco
death_date =9 November ,2003
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field =holography
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alma_mater =Harvard University
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hologram and a pioneer in medical imaging and fine arts holography.Biography
He was born in
San Francisco in 1941 and grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in electrical engineering (1963) and worked with stroboscopy pioneer Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton. During this time, Benton also worked at thePolaroid Corp., participating in Edwin Land's vision research laboratory. He received the M.S. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) fromHarvard University .References
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coauthors=Smith , Scherrer-Crosbie , Liel-Cohen , Levine , Nesbitt , Benton , Picard
year=1999|month=Feb.
title=Dynamic holographic imaging of the beating human heart
journal=Circulation
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issue=5
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* " [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/benton.html Holography pioneer Stephen Benton dies at 61] ",
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , November 12, 2003.
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