Mary Jackson
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American mathematician and aerospace engineer
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Aerospace Engineering
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#227
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.
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