Born: 6 November 1923, United States
Died: 12 August 2006
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
This entry is reprinted in full with permission from the National Women’s History Museum (United States of America). It was written by Sarah McLennan, PhD. All rights reserved.
In the mid-1950s, Kathleen Wicker received an assignment at work with one of the first electronic computers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). “At the time, I hardly knew what a computer was,” she recalled in an interview 40 years later. “I thought it was a woman.”