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Mary W. Jackson

Jackson worked in NACA’s West Area Computing section before moving into wind-tunnel research and aeronautical engineering.

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Jackson worked in NACA’s West Area Computing section before moving into wind-tunnel research and aeronautical engineering.

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Her work was not the same as Katherine Johnson’s trajectory calculations or Dorothy Vaughan’s programming. Distinguishing their roles makes the shared institutional setting clearer.

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  1. Jackson worked in NACA’s West Area Computing section before moving into wind-tunnel research and aeronautical engineering.

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    • Mary W. Jackson — Computer History Museum — Biography, West Area Computing and Supersonic Pressure Tunnel
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  1. Mary W. Jackson — Computer History Museum

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