Benton, Stephen Anthony

▪ 2004

      American inventor (b. Dec. 1, 1941, San Francisco, Calif.—d. Nov. 9, 2003, Boston, Mass.), became fascinated with holograms the first time he saw one and went on to invent the rainbow hologram, the type used on credit cards, which was named the Benton hologram. He was a founding member of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his pioneering work led to uses in medical imaging and in fine arts holography.

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