# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eleanor-c-pressly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:25:44.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eleanor-c-pressly"
name: "Eleanor C. Pressly"
slug: "eleanor-c-pressly"
description: "Eleanor Crockett Pressly was an American mathematician and aeronautical engineer in the sounding rocket program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She worked on the Aerobee rocket with James Van Allen and John W. Townsend Jr. in the late 1950s."
tagline: "American mathematician and aeronautical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eleanor_Pressley_(cropped).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: "1918"
deathDate: "2003-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668430666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Eleanor C. Pressly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%8A._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "إلينور سي. بريسلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%89._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "الينور سى. بريسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Crockett_Pressly"
    title: "Eleanor Crockett Pressly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B3%DB%8C._%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "النور سی. پرسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_C._Pressly"
    title: "Eleanor C. Pressly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64500289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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