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Mary Jackson

1921 - 2005

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Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Jackson is the 175th most popular mathematician (down from 143rd in 2019), the 1,339th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,030th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Jackson ranks 175 out of 1,004. Before her are Carl David Tolmé Runge, Joseph Bertrand, Johannes Trithemius, Wang Chong, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Vladimir Arnold. After her are John Pell, Felix Hausdorff, Giambattista della Porta, Zoia Ceaușescu, Edward Norton Lorenz, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Mary Jackson ranks 68. Before her are Zizinho, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Kurt Knispel, György Cziffra, Edgar Morin, and Akio Morita. After her are Karel Appel, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Harry Daghlian, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Murray Bookchin, and Peter Benenson. Among people deceased in 2005, Mary Jackson ranks 42. Before her are James Callaghan, Max Schmeling, George F. Kennan, Akira Yoshizawa, Moustapha Akkad, and Birgit Nilsson. After her are Brother Roger, John Fowles, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Robert Wise, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Richard Smalley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Jackson ranks 1,339 out of 20,380. Before her are William Daniel Phillips (1948), Carl Spaatz (1891), Mr. T (1952), Willie Nelson (1933), Mark David Chapman (1955), and John Updike (1932). After her are Ray Kurzweil (1948), Usher (1978), John Fante (1909), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), William Barr (1950), and Mark Wahlberg (1971).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Mary Jackson ranks 10. Before her are Katherine Johnson (1918), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Jim Simons (1938), Claude Shannon (1916), Paul Cohen (1934), and John Tate (1925). After her are Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Lloyd Shapley (1923), and John G. Thompson (1932).

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