Katie Bouman
publication date: Saturday, April 13, 2019 (part of Spring 2019)
category: 
Science
clue: Here's generating an image of a woman who generates images for a living, including one that just this week showed us something in the cosmos that we'd never seen before.
explanation: Bouman is an imaging scientist who became famous for her work generating the first-ever image of a black hole in April 2019. more…
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, Stan Iwanchuk, and Kelly Lee
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