Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Harriett Jenkins did her part to diversify NASA as the assistant administrator for equal opportunity programs from 1974 to 1992.
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
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).
American aerospace engineer
American venture capitalist and social reformer
Bangladeshi-American scientist specialising in graphene, nanomaterials, micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMs) devices, and sensors. Her USC BSc and MIT PhD from MIT (2010 took her to NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she led a team developing a nanomaterial-based detector platform.
Indian-American aerospace engineer
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