# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melba-roy-mouton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:32:41.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melba-roy-mouton"
name: "Melba Roy Mouton"
slug: "melba-roy-mouton"
description: "Melba Roy Mouton was an African American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called \"computers\". She served as Head Mathematician for Echo Satellites 1 and 2 before becoming Head Computer Programmer and then Program Production Section Chief at Goddard Space Flight Center."
tagline: "African-American Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melba_Roy_-_Female_Computer_-_GPN-2000-001647.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-01-01"
deathDate: "1990-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump