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Mary Jackson
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American mathematician and aerospace engineer
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Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Born in Hampton, she was educated at Hampton University and worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA, and the Langley Research Center. She was influenced by Dorothy Vaughan and was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Jackson wrote 33 works, including *Detective Peachtree Porcupine*, *Midnight Fighter*, *Laci and the Pizza Bandits*, *Fighter*, and *Haunted House down the Road*.
She received the Congressional Gold Medal, which is part of the Vinony collections. Jackson died in Hampton in 2005. She spoke English and her birth name was Mary Jackson.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Detective Peachtree Porcupine
- Midnight Fighter
- Laci and the Pizza Bandits
- Fighter
- Haunted House down the Road
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Mary Winston , ( 1921-04-09 ) April 9, 1921, Hampton, Virginia , U.S.
- Died
- February 11, 2005 (2005-02-11) (aged 83), Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
- Education
- Hampton University ( BS )
- Known for
- Aerospace engineer at NASA and advocacy for women in STEM fields
- Spouse
- Levi Jackson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 ; died 1992 )
- Fields
- Aerospace engineering
- Institutions
- NASA
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mary
- Family name
- Jackson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hampton
- Place of death
- Hampton
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- space research
- Image
- Mary Jackson with a model (medium close-up).jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of death
- 2005-02-11
- Commons category
- Mary Jackson
- member of
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- date of birth
- 1921-04-09
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Mary Winston
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician 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.
After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available. She realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both the Federal Women's Program, in the NASA Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and of the Affirmative Action Program. In this role, she worked to influence the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, engineering, and mathematics careers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mary Jackson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.