Judith Resnik
Sign in to saveAmerican engineer and astronaut (1949–1986)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949-04-05
- Died
- 1986-01-28
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Impermissible Punishments
- The Federal procedural system
- The Federal procedural system
- Representing justice
- The Federal procedural system
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Akron, Ohio, USA
Known for
- Challenger: The Final Flight — Self (archive footage)2020
via TMDB
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program
· 2009 · cited 30,689x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 13,860x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,906x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2019 · cited 7,341x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Judith Arlene Resnik , ( 1949-04-05 ) April 5, 1949, Akron, Ohio , U.S.
- Died
- January 28, 1986 (1986-01-28) (aged 36), North Atlantic Ocean
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon University ( BS ), University of Maryland, College Park ( MS , PhD )
- Awards
- Congressional Space Medal of Honor NASA Space Flight Medal
- Time in space
- 6d 0h 56m
- Selection
- NASA Group 8 (1978)
- Missions
- STS-41-D , STS-51-L ( Space Shuttle Challenger disaster )
- Thesis
- Bleaching Kinetics of Visual Pigments (1977)
- Doctoral advisor
- Felix Zajac
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 5 April 1949
- Died
- 28 January 1986
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 8
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Akron
- Place of death
- Cape Canaveral
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- University of Maryland
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.
Recognized while still a child for her intellectual brilliance, Resnik was accepted at Carnegie Institute of Technology after becoming only the 16th woman in the history of the United States to have attained a perfect score on the SAT exam. She graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon before attaining a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
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1949 births1986 deaths20th-century American engineers20th-century American Jews20th-century American women engineersAmerican people of Israeli descentAmerican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descentAmerican systems engineersAmerican women astronautsBurials at Arlington National CemeteryCarnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumniJews from Ohio