Women in science they mysteriously don't teach you about

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52. I would have thought that these days, she is more well known for her scientific contributions

since her movies are old, and not nearly as popular as some of the enduring classics from that era. As for the frequency hopping, one thing that I always thought was neat was that her co-inventor was avant-garde composer George Antheil, and their implementation of the technology involved player piano rolls.

Another amazing female scientist is Katherine Johnson. Despite the hurdles of being an African-American woman in the early 20th century, she entered college early, and was a wizard at analytic geometry. After some time as an elementary schoolteacher, she went to work for NASA's precursor, where she initially helped to perform arithmetic calculations on experimental data (pre-computer days). Thanks to her talent and assertiveness, she was able to move from that into the research group where she calculated the trajectory for many of the high-profile missions of the 60s space program, including the moon landing. When NASA began moving to calculating with computers, they ran the computer's numbers against hers to make sure that the computers were programmed correctly.