Anna Lee Fisher
Also known as Anna Lee Tingle Fisher, Anna L. Fisher, Anna L. Tingle, Anna Fisher, Anna Tingle
American astronaut (born 1949)
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- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,949x
- Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 65,102x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,710x
- Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests
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Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle; born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother to fly in space. During her career at NASA, she was involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion spacecraft.
A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1971, Fisher started graduate school in chemistry, conducting X-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarboranes. The following year she moved to the UCLA School of Medicine, where she received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1976. She completed her internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California, in 1977, and chose to specialize in emergency medicine.