# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-paulson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:29:50.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-paulson"
name: "Barbara Paulson"
slug: "barbara-paulson"
description: "Barbara Jean Paulson was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there. Paulson began working as a mathematician at JPL in 1948, where she calculated rocket trajectories by hand. She is among the women who made early progress at JPL."
tagline: "American former human computer at NASA"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Paulson%2C_Vickie_Wang_and_Helen_Ling_from_JPL%2C_socializing_over_lunch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-04-11"
deathDate: "2023-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.07
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.737257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "பார்பாரா பவுல்சன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باربرا بولسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باربرا بولسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Paulson"
    title: "Barbara Paulson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45321187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump