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One of the first Black women to receive a doctorate in mathematics from an American university, Evelyn Boyd Granville's groundbreaking work in computers included helping calculate orbit trajectories and lunar-landing scenarios for the space program.
Four of these men are now known to have continued their careers at NBS, though colleagues at the time didn’t know about their co-workers’ historic past.