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Melba Roy Mouton

African-American Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1929 to 1990 · aged 61

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".

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 1990 · aged 61