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Evelyn Boyd Granville

By moontrash

  • Born & Childhood

    Born & Childhood
    Evelyn Boyd Granville was born in Washington DC into a very modest african-american family. She suffer the effects of the Big Depresion even that her father did everything he could to maintain the family. She worked with her silbings on a truck selling vegetables.
    Years later, her parents got divorced and she lived with her mother.

  • Studies

    Studies
    While living with her mother, she continued her studies in the Dunbar High School. She went to the Smith College (Massachusetts), with the ambition of becoming a maths teacher.
    She studied maths, physic and astronomy. She also had a summer job. She finished college on 1945 and Yale gave her a doctorate.
    She is the second black woman to earned a PhD in mathematics.

  • Works

    Works
    Evelyn got her first job at the University High school of Maths and Science of New York; she worked there a year, and in that time she could feel the discrimination really close, what made her quit time later.
    She got her second job in 1950, she was a assistant teacher on the Fisk Uneversity (Nashville, Tennessee). In 1952, she went back to Washington so she could work as a mathematician at the National Office of Statistics; this is the moment when she get interested in programing.

  • Nasa

    Nasa
    Thanks to her programer facet, she had the chance to work in IBM back in New York. While she was working there, NASA signed a contract with IBM in order to desing, write and endure computer programs for USA's spatial program; and Evelyn got a job.
    She was part of the team that took on responsability the orbit calculation and the procedure to control spatial vehicles as much for Mercury's Project for Vanguard's Project.

  • Orbit Calculation

    In 1960 Evelyn got married to Gamaliel Mansfield Collins and she left IBM to move to Los Angeles, and she start working on a team of study and investigation of orbit calculation.
    Her husband was part of the Civil Rights Movement by Martin Luther King, thing that made her being part too; Evelyn was also an activist for Women's Rights.
    While the 60s the space race was in its more important moment, and the recently created NASA, needed mathematicians, physicist and astromers.

  • Back to NASA

    As NASA needed this profesionals, Evelyn came back to it and she got into a team that desinged works for the Apolo's Project.
    In 1967 she had the opotunity to work back in Washington, but she stayed in Los Angeles where her contract with IBM finished; and she focused on her divorced.
    In 1968, she was part of the Formation of Faculty Projects, that took charge of the introduction to modern mathematics. This is the moment where she wrote her book "The Theory and Uses of Mathematics for Teachers".

  • Now

    Now
    Even that she's retired, she keeps teaching coding only for her pleasure to some undergraduated and adults.
    I think Evelyn is such an inspiration because she had to face many problems like the Big Depression and a hard childhood. She had to face the discrimination of being a woman and also black. Even that she had all that problems, she could face them and she made her dreams come true.
    She is a strong inventor woman and that's the reason why i choosed her. She taught us a leason of improvement.