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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 engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available by 1979 and realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both NASA's federal women's program and the affirmative action program. Her work sought to influence the career paths of women in science, engineering, and mathematics positions at NASA. Jackson is one of the leading characters in the 2016 book Hidden Figures and one of the three protagonists in the book's film adaptation, released the same year. This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.

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Panoramic view of Pendle Hill
Panoramic view of Pavey Ark
Panoramic view of Pen-y-ghent
Panoramic view of Boulsworth Hill
Panoramic view of Catstye Cam
Percival Lowell at the Lowell Observatory
Daguerreotype of Phineas Gage
Illustration of tesla roadster/falcon 9h
Orbital diagram of tesla roadster/falcon 9h
Animated diagrams of Planet Nine
Orbital diagrams of Planet Nine
Artist's impression of Planet Nine
Artist's impression of Planet Nine with labels
Hyperbolic trajectory of ʻOumuamua through the inner Solar System
Simulation of ʻOumuamua spinning and tumbling, and the resultant light curve
Artist's impression of ʻOumuamua
Trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU₅₅, 8-9 November 2011
Apparent trajectory of asteroid 2005 YU₅₅, 8-9 November 2011
Position of Voyager 1 on 14 February 1990
Animated diagram of Halley's Comet
Astronomical unit diagram
Image histogram of a low-contrast scene, normally exposed
Image histogram of a low-contrast scene, exposed to the right
Map of Canadian National Parks
100 graphs of empirical distribution functions
Wu experiment, demonstrating parity violation
Simple schematic of the Wu experiment
Hierarchy of editor subservience
Storm in a teacup
Pac-Man optical illusion
Kitty emoji
Super-Kamiokande water purification system
Super-Kamiokande air purification system
Solar fusion reactions, the p-p chain and CNO-I cycle
High-resolution location map of the Perseverance rover
Vincent van Gogh at the age of 19
Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent
Philip Mountbatten, Princess Elizabeth and Louis St. Laurent
Body mass index chart

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