Mary Jackson

CTL-E-1077 · Institution · other · 1951-1985

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Mathematician who began in the West Area Computing pool at NACA Langley and became the first female African-American engineer employed by NASA.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-074; source research type(s): None.

Sources

National Geographic

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