MATHEMATICS Katherine Johnson (Estados Unidos, 1918)

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She was born to a very humble family in Virginia and her destiny as a black woman seemed decided (The racial segregation laws only let her to be teacher). But Katherine soon start to stand out for her control of the numbers and the mathematics: her intelect let her to graduate in Maths and French at the young age of 18. She worked as a teacher during years and in 1953 she started to work at Calcule department of the NACA (former NASA), where she made all the operations that the aeronautic engineers needed. Her curiosity and numerical control led to calculate everything from Mercury project, becoming the responsible of the parabolic trajectory of the first manned flight into space. She also calculated the traject of Apollo 11 which sent the first men to the Moon and was the key of the return of Apollo 13.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Ada Lovelace (Reino Unido, 1815-1852)

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GENETICS Barbara McClintock (Estados Unidos, 1902-1992)

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ARCHEOLOGY Mary Anning (Reino Unido, 1799-1847)

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