Evelyn Granville
Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Evelyn Boyd Granville
Born: May 1, 1924, in Washington, D.C., USA
Computer-related contributions
- One of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
- Former computer programmer at IBM.
- Worked for the U.S. Space Technology Laboratories.
- Subject of the academy award-nominated film Hidden Figures (2016), based on a book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The fictional story was based on true stories of black female mathematicians (then known as "human computers") who played a pivotal role at NASA during the space race of the 1960s.