Hampton, Virginia (April 9, 1921 -February 11, 2005) age 83 yrs

Mary Jackson was an African American mathematician. She was also an aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In 1958, this organization was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. Jackson was one of several hundred rigorously educated women. These women were supremely capable yet largely unheralded. Well before the modern feminist movement, they worked as NASA mathematicians. The stories of three of these women were told in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures”. These women include Johnson and two of her colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Katherine Johnson.