WSLS 10: Mary Jackson: NASA’s first Black female engineer
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Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson 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 takin…
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science · American aerospace engineer (1921–2005) · mathematician · military flight engineer · computer scientist · also Mary Jackson, Mary Jackson (engineer), Мэри Уинстон Джексон, Мэри У. Джексон, Мэри Уинстон, Jackson
Born 9 April 1921 · Died 11 February 2005 · Q27221300
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2025· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
A satellite (ÑuSat 17 or "Mary", COSPAR 2020-079J) named after her was launched into space
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2019· 2 entries
Won Congressional Gold Medal (2019).
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Jackson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
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2018· 1 entry
The Salt Lake City School Board voted that Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, would be renamed for Mary Jackson instead of President Andrew Jackson
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2005· 2 entries
Died 2005-02-11.
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Age 83, at a convalescent home in Hampton, Virginia
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1992· 1 entry
Published “Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation” in Physical Review B — cited 21,744 times.
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1972· 1 entry
Distinguished Service Award for her work with the Combined Federal Campaign representing Humanitarian Agencies
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1958· 4 entries
After taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer
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And became NASA's first black female engineer
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Was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Mary Jackson became the first female African-American to become an engineer
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1953· 1 entry
Accepted an offer to work for engineer Kazimierz Czarnecki in the Supersonic Pressure Tunnel
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1951· 2 entries
Became a clerk at the Office of the Chief Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe
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Jackson was recruited by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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1942· 1 entry
Studied at Hampton University, Bachelor of Science (1942).
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1921· 2 entries
To Ella Winston (née Scott) and Frank Winston
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Born 1921-04-09.
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