We should all know about the mathematician Grace Hopper! She served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, worked on the first atomic weapons, and developed the earliest computer programming language.
For the story of her remarkable life, check out the Killer Means Awesome podcast!
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Kit Troyer Blog 
A remarkable woman.
A woman of character!
As an F minor math student, this absolutely blew my mind.
After returning to NH, I worked as a recruiter for the Timberland
company that needed Cobol programmers for which I had to scour
the country. This effort was a requirement for mainframe computing,
a word I did not hear mentioned in this piece. Curious to know if
that beast at Harvard was ever referred to as one (?)
Kit, you just forgot there was a commodore designation in the Navy–
Millard Fillmore dispatched one to Japan to pry it open from its
isolationism by the name of Perry.
WOW!!! 🤗🙏🏽🥰