7/11/2023 0 Comments Math whiz![]() And that many women in her hometown defied convention, too, by having vibrant, and by most standards, unusual careers.īlack and female, dozens had worked at the space agency as mathematicians, often under Jim Crow laws, calculating crucial trajectories for rockets while being segregated from their white counterparts. It would be years before she learned that this was far from the American norm. Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad.
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