Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jeanette Scissum

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Original – Jeanette Scissum, first African-American mathematician to be employed by Marshall Space Flight Center, and developed techniques to predict the sunspot cycle, and was acclaimed for her work as an equal employment opportunity officer at NASA.

Reason: So, uh... I have insomnia. And you can probably guess from my recent activity here what I do when I have insomnia. But I will say this is a pretty strong image, I love "People at work images", and I just spent about... four, four and a half hours cleaning this one up. Think some of the marks look like scuffs, so I left those in.
Oh, I should probably point out the curves adjustment. I'm rather proud of that: Was able to recover a fair bit of detail in the bright whites, which is always nice. I'd imagine this was shot a bit on the over-exposed side as, well, frankly, film stock was calibrated for white people - but at least the photographer making the effort to work around them means that she is well-photgraphed.
Oh, and for the record, this is the poster: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LEM/ - the apparent smear on the left of the moon is definitely a real lunar feature.
Articles in which this image appears: Jeanette Scissum
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: NASA/MSFC; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 07:13, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 18:48, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support despite the perspective distortion. MER-C 09:58, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:58, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:38, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Andrei (talk) 18:58, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:20, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]