Peggy Hodges
Defence electronics engineer
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Rose Winslade
Acoustic and electronics engineer and technical educator.
Rosemary West
Women’s Engineering Society president and pioneering computer engineer.
Kathleen Booth
Kathleen Booth was a computing pioneer, who helped with the crystallography analysis that contributed to the DNA structure, was a co-designer of one of the first 3 operational computers in the world, and author of 2 of the earliest books on computer design and programming.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Judy Butland
Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.
Elizabeth Killick
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Dina St Johnston
The founder of the UK’s first independent software house
Hilary Kahn
Pioneering software engineer who laid the basis for CAD for engineers of today.
Dorothy Vaughan
The first African-American female supervisor of the NACA, advancing to become an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs.