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Mary Jackson (née Winston; [1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Mary Jackson graduated from high school in Wimberley, Texas and her Navy biography list her as a native. [3] However, she was born in Spain and spent 15 years of her life in Saudi Arabia as a child. [4] Her father was a US Army Air Corps officer during World War II and also a geologist.
Benjamin Jackson (January 2, 1835 – August 20, 1915) was a Canadian sailor and farmer who was a decorated veteran of the American Civil War.Raised in a small community of Black Nova Scotians, Jackson began his career as a commercial seaman at 16 years old and started a farm in his twenties.
Mary A. Livermore was a private tutor at a Virginia plantation around 1840; ... "A Sailor's Notion" The Liberator, March 24, ... Jackson, Alabama [323] Andrew Jackson
Healy was born into slavery near Macon, Georgia, in 1839, as the fifth of ten children of Michael Morris Healy, an Irish immigrant planter, and Mary Eliza Smith, his common-law wife, a mixed-race African-American slave. [Note 2] [4] The senior Healy was born in 1795 in Roscommon, Ireland, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1818 as a young man.
Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, 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 taking ...
Mary Jackson (November 22, 1910 – December 10, 2005) was an American character actress whose nearly fifty-year career began in 1950 and was spent almost entirely in television. She is best known for the role of the lovelorn Emily Baldwin in The Waltons and was the original choice to play Alice Horton in the daytime soap opera Days of Our ...
Mary Jackson (actress) (1910–2005), American television character actress; Mary Jackson (engineer) (1921–2005), American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NASA; Mary Jackson (artist) (born 1945), American fiber artist from South Carolina; Mary Jackson McCrorey (1867–1944), born Mary C. Jackson, American educator and mission worker