Evelyn Boyd Granville Essay

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Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-Present) The work of Evelyn Boyd Granville was important because she focused on the mathematics and physics of life and the earth. Discovering new ideas about the orbit and objects pertaining to the orbit. This research paper will go into depth of her life and through her accomplishments, such as learning math and physics, which most women in this time period did not have a chance to go through. Another reason why the work of Evelyn was so important because it is used in our everyday lives to create new things, discover new things, and to solve problems. Mathematics is used to pay bills and to cook to give a few examples. It is also used to figure out different formulas for space. Mathematics is used for computing …show more content…

Once she started her school career in the junior high, she graduated being the salutatorian of her class. Once she graduated from junior high school and entering high school, from then she was one out of five valedictorians from Dunbar High School. Being a young African-American woman in the 1940s, there were not a lot of African-Americans in college, so she decided to take that step and entered college. The school she attended was Smith College in Northampton, MA, fall of 1941. While ending her college years, she graduated summa cum laude in 1945 in Mathematics. After graduating undergraduate, she went to graduate school at Yale University where she received her Ph.D in …show more content…

While taking her trip she met a man by the name of Gamaliel Collins. Shortly after they met they got married during the year of 1960. After marrying Gamaliel, she moved to California to live with them where his three children that he had from a previous relationship stayed often. While married to him she worked at the Computation and Data Reduction Center of Space Technology Laboratories. While she was working hard, she was a research specialist, where she specialized in things dealing with space such as the calculations of space and orbit. She did this job in the space and information systems area for the North American Aviation Company, also known as NAA. Later in the years after she became very good in her work that it took up most of her time which was primarily the cause of her marriage to end in a divorce from Gamaliel in

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