Archive for September, 2017
Women and Adversity: Mary Jackson, NACA Mathematician, First African American Engineer for NASA
September 28, 2017Mary Winston grew up in Hampton, VA and attended all-black schools, graduating from George P. Phenix Training School in 1937. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and ...
Women and Adversity: Dorothy Vaughan NASA Mathematician First African American Manager at NACA (see below)
September 14, 2017BACKGROUND: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was founded in 1915 to advance aeronautical research. NACA had what it called the West Area Computing unit located ...