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Annie Easley

1933 - 2011

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Annie Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an African American computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA's rocket systems and energy technologies. Easley's early work involved running simulations at NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility and studying the effects of rocket launches on earth's ozone layer. She taught herself programming using languages like Fortran and SOAP (Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program) to help with these simulations. She would also work on developing code used in researching and analyzing alternative power technologies like batteries and fuel systems, which would be later used in hybrid vehicles and NASA's Centaur upper-stage rocket. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Easley is the 158th most popular computer scientist (down from 134th in 2019), the 9,560th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,243rd in 2019) and the 91st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Annie Easley ranks 158 out of 245. Before her are Shafi Goldwasser, Raj Reddy, Bertrand Meyer, Hal Abelson, Kent Beck, and Elizabeth J. Feinler. After her are Kathleen Booth, Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Silvio Micali, Henriette Avram, Liu Gang, and Yoshua Bengio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Annie Easley ranks 448. Before her are Michael Parenti, Pete Wilson, Penelope Lively, Tony Jay, William Blum, and Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili. After her are Dušanka Sifnios, Joe Orton, Murray Halberg, Jonathan Penrose, Johannes Schaaf, and Seydou Diarra. Among people deceased in 2011, Annie Easley ranks 388. Before her are Joe Morello, Yozhef Betsa, Bob Brookmeyer, Park Wan-suh, Knut Steen, and Žarko Nikolić. After her are Roger Gautier, Walter Giller, David Hess, Ellen Winther, Carl Robie, and Filoimea Telito.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Annie Easley ranks 9,562 out of 20,380. Before her are Simon Guggenheim (1867), Veronica Hamel (1943), Ben Lyon (1901), Michael Anthony (1954), Harlow Curtice (1893), and Jerry Weintraub (1937). After her are Gwen Verdon (1925), Fischer Black (1938), Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968), Eileen Collins (1956), Stephen Dorff (1973), and Jeff Hardy (1977).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Annie Easley ranks 91. Before her are John L. Hennessy (1952), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jaron Lanier (1960), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Kent Beck (1961), and Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931). After her are Henriette Avram (1919), James H. Clark (1944), Brewster Kahle (1960), Edward F. Moore (1925), Randy Pausch (1960), and Andy Hertzfeld (1953).

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