Christine Darden
African-American mathematician, aerospace engineer
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Christine Darden's Degrees
- PhD Mechanical Engineering George Washington University
- Masters Applied Mathematics Virginia State University
- Bachelors Mathematics Hampton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christine Darden is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She had an M.S. in mathematics and had been teaching at Virginia State University before starting to work at the Langley Research Center in 1967. She earned a Ph.D. in engineering at George Washington University in 1983 and has published numerous articles in her field. She was the first African-American woman at NASA's Langley Research Center to be promoted to the Senior Executive Service, the top rank in the federal civil service.
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