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Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massac…
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business · United States software engineer (born 1936) · computer scientist · mathematician · engineer · businessperson · software developer · also Margaret Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton (software engineer), Margaret Heafield Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, Margaret Elaine Hamilton, Margaret Elaine Heafield
Born 17 August 1936 · Q11628
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Fast Company: Margaret Hamilton - 2025 Michael Collins Trophy Winner
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insider.si.edu: National Air and Space Museum’s 2025 Michael Collins Trophy Awarded to Margaret Hamilton and the OSIRIS-REx Team
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: Margaret Hamilton's Time in Oz: Biographer Reveals Insights on Garland and More
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Fox News: Meet the American who wrote the moon-landing software: Margaret Hamilton, computer whiz mom
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically shows pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969.” True.
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2022).
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The Cheat Sheet: Margaret Hamilton Refused to Work With Fireworks Again After ‘The Wizard of Oz’
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Was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2019· 4 entries
Awarded Washington Award (2019).
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To celebrate 50 years after the Apollo landing, Google decided to make a tribute to Hamilton
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Was awarded the Intrepid Lifetime Achievement Award
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Was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Bard College
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (2018).
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Was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2017).
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Received the Computer History Museum Fellow Award, which honors exceptional men and women whose computing ideas have changed the world
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A "Women of NASA" LEGO set went on sale featuring minifigures of Hamilton, astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride, and NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, Nancy Grace Roman
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2016· 3 entries
Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama, the highest civilian honor in the United States
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research” in Organizational Research Methods — cited 11,655 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Earlham College
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2003· 1 entry
Was given the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award for scientific and technical contributions
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Ada Lovelace Award (1986).
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Hamilton received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award by the Association for Women in Computing
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1980· 1 entry
British-Israeli computer scientist David Harel published a proposal for a structured programming language derived from HOS from the viewpoint of and/or subgoals
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1976· 2 entries
And Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Hamilton co-founded with Saydean Zeldin a company called Higher Order Software (HOS) to further develop ideas about error prevention and fault tolerance emerging from their experience at MIT working on the Apollo program
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1967· 1 entry
And Margaret married Dan Lickly two years later
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1965· 1 entry
And wanted to get involved due to it being "very exciting" as a Moon program
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1964· 1 entry
Published “The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I” in Journal of Theoretical Biology — cited 10,879 times.
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1960· 1 entry
Published “A RATING SCALE FOR DEPRESSION” in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry — cited 25,427 times.
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1959· 1 entry
Published “THE ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY STATES BY RATING” in British Journal of Medical Psychology — cited 9,377 times.
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1958· 2 entries
The summer after she graduated from Earlham
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Studied at Earlham College, Bachelor of Arts (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
Published “Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 42,361 times.
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1955· 1 entry
Before transferring to Earlham College, where her mother had been a student
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1951· 1 entry
Published “A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo” in Journal of Morphology — cited 10,399 times.
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-08-17.
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