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Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were ...
Sep 8, 2016 · “These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary,” says Margot Lee Shetterly. Her new book Hidden Figures shines light on the inner details of these women’s lives and...
- Kathaleen Land
- Katherine Johnson
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Mary Jackson
- Eunice Smith
- Dorothy Hoover
- Annie Easley
- Evelyn Boyd Granville
- Melba Roy Mouton
- Miriam Daniel Mann
Kathaleen Land was the inspiration behind, catalyst for, and gateway to Hidden Figures. Land, in her retirement, was Shetterly’s beloved Sunday school teacher. Before retirement, she was a mathematician and computer at NASA’s Langley facility. Land was Shetterly’s first interview for Hidden Figures, providing the author with introductions to many o...
A physicist, space scientist and mathematician, Katherine Johnson was integral to early crewed space flight. She carried out the calculations for Alan Shepard’s flight (which made him the first American in space). She also verified the calculations made by an electronic computer for John Glenn’s orbit – at Glenn’s request – and for Apollo 11’s traj...
Played by Octavia Spencer in the film, Dorothy Vaughan has left a lasting legacy for all mathematicians who followed her. During a career that lasted 28 years, she was the first African-American to become acting supervisor of West Area Computers in 1949. When NASA was established in 1958 and segregation was abolished, Vaughan became an expert FORTR...
Mary Jackson was one of a small group of African-American women who worked as aeronautical engineers at NASA. She worked at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1951, reporting to Vaughan, the group’s supervisor. A few years later, Jackson was encouraged to take engineering classes, though she needed special permission from the city of H...
Mathematician Eunice Smith was a neighbour of Johnson’s, and a colleague of hers at the NACA West Area Computers facility. Here, she was involved in many of the projects that drove the US’s first forays into space. When West Area Computers was dissolved in 1958, as desegregation came to Langley, Smith was one of the nine women remaining in the pool...
Dorothy Hoover was one of the few black women working prior to and during the space race to receive recognition for her work. Fluent in abstract mathematics, Hoover worked under Robert T Jones and published two pieces of research on his theory of triangular swept-back aeroplane wings for high-speed aircraft, which can be read here. Prior to joining...
Spending 34 years with NASA, Annie Easley’s introduction into what became the space race arose from a simple 1955 job post that sought candidates with excellent maths skills. She entered what was then called NACA as, essentially, a human computer. When machines overtook humans, Easley became a programmer, helping to code battery technology that rev...
Evelyn Boyd Granville was the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American university. After joining IBM as a computer programmer in 1956, she created computer software for NASA’s Project Vanguard and Project Mercury space programmes. In 1989, she was the first African-American female mathematician to be awarded an...
Having joined NASA in 1959 with a master’s degree in mathematics, Melba Roy Mouton is now considered one of NASA’s most celebrated scientists. In the 1960s, she was assistant chief of research programmes at NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics division, where she supervised a team of programmers. By the time she retired in 1973, she was head mathemati...
Miriam Daniel Mann graduated from Talladega College with a major in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. As part of the job application process, she was one of 11 women in the first cohort required to complete a 10-week course at Hampton University. Mann completed 20 years of service with NASA after the successful mission that sent John Glenn into...
Jan 24, 2017 · " Hidden Figures," a 2016 book by Margot Lee Shetterly and a movie based on the book, celebrates the contributions of some of those workers. NASA history. Human computers were not a new...
Nov 22, 2016 · Died: Feb. 24, 2020. Hometown: White Sulphur Springs, WV. Education: B.S., Mathematics and French, West Virginia State College, 1937. Hired by NACA: June 1953. Retired from NASA: 1986. Actress Playing Role in Hidden Figures: Taraji P. Henson. Biography by Margot Lee Shetterly.
About Margot Lee Shetterly. www.margotleeshetterly.com. Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins).
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Sep 5, 2016 · Ms. Shetterly happened upon the idea for the book six years ago, when she and her husband, Aran Shetterly, then living in Mexico, were visiting her parents here.
