West Area Computers

CTL-E-1103 · Institution · other · 1943-1958

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The African-American women mathematicians who worked as human 'computers' at the NACA Langley Research Center's segregated West Area, 1943-1958, performing flight-test and aeronautical calculations by hand.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-106; source research type(s): None.

Sources

Scientific American, 'The Story of NASA's Real Hidden Figures'; Wikipedia, 'West Area Computers'
Wikipedia, 'West Area Computers' (citing Shetterly and Golemba)
Scientific American

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