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Mary Jackson
Sign in to saveAlso known as Мэри Уинстон Джексон, Мэри У. Джексон, Мэри Уинстон
American mathematician and aerospace engineer
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
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958-08-29
- Active to
- 2009-06-25
Discography
- Got to Be There1972
- Ben1972
- Music & Me1973
- Forever, Michael1975
- Off the Wall1979
- Thriller1982
- Bad1987
- Dangerous1991
- HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I1995
- Invincible2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 172
- Total plays
- 892
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,806x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,702x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,191x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “We have to do something like this to get them interested in science. Sometimes they are not aware of the number of black scientists, and don't even know of the career opportunities until it is too late.”
- “I am a Christian with room to spare and feel that we all need to do our part in times of trouble, we are a reasonable drive from many of the affected areas. I have already reached out to friends of mine in the Raleigh-Durham area. I also have lots of friends in this area who would be willing to help.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
~10 min read
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.