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).
1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
20th century Irish nurse, diarist and welfare worker
20th century Irish nurse and health service administrator
Irish novelist, historian, and poet
Yellowstone National Park ranger and naturalist, 1921-1931
In 2001, Dr. Maria New identified a new form of hypertension, “apparent mineralcorticoid excess,” which resulted in a new area of research to determine how gluticoscoritcoids and mineralcorticoids interact with receptors.
Awarded her medical degree in 1897, Dr. Nute held the position of examining physician for entering Wellesley College students for 16 years and served on the staff of the New England Hospital for Women and Children for over 40 years.