MARGARET ELAINE

HAMILTON

THE WOMEN WHO

GOT US TO THE MOON.
 MARGARET
HAMILTON
Where & when born: Education:
Bachelors of Mathematics from Earlham
Paoli, Indiana, United States.
College.
August 17, 1936
She studied Mathematics in the
University of Michigan.

She did her graduate work at Brandeis

University. ( abstract mathematics )
Graduation SAGE Project MIT- Apollo Apollo 11 Landing

She finished her studies 1961 to 1963. in 1969 she joined During the moon landing her
at: During this time she wrote a the Apollo Project program was used which she
program which was used by and she was the created to make the landing
Earlham College: the US Air Force. director of the successful.
1958 software
The program which she used engineering divison. She developed a program
University of Michigan: was AN/FSQ-7 computer which was used to navigate
1955 (the XD-1). She was one of the their way to the moon and
first software also the moon landing overall.
Brandeis University: engineers at NASA.

CAREER
Around 1959
 Acknowledgements
This is a list by Wikipedia showing all the
awards she received during her
successful programming career!

Overall, Margaret Hamilton started her own company after the

The most recent award that she
successful Apollo landing. She founded her company
received was in 2022 from the
Hamilton Technologies in 1986 and she is still a part of it.
National Aviation Hall of Fame in
Daytona, Ohio.
 The Ted-Ed gives us a brief
description of the life story of
Margaret Hamilton and how she got
opportunities as she worked hard
throughout her life and throughout
all the struggles that she faced.

TED ED:
THE WOMEN WHO GOT US https://youtu.be/kYCZPXSVvOQ?
TO MOON:
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)#:~:text=MIT%20Instrumentation%20Laboratory%20and%20the%20Apollo%20Guidance%20Computer,-
Hamilton%20in%201969&text=Hamilton%20then%20joined%20the%20MIT,the%20Apollo%20lunar%20exploration%20program.

https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/ingeniouswomen/apollosfrauen/margarethamilton/index.html#:~:text=Hamilton%2C%20who%20had%20practically%20taught,and%20landing%20on%20the%20moon.

https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/#:~:text=Margaret%20Hamilton's%20Apollo%20Code,-A%20brief%20history&text=One%20of%20the%20many%20contributors,the%20Apollo%20program's%20guidance%20system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYCZPXSVvOQ
“Change starts with one
person, one idea, and one
action”
MARGARET ELAINE HAMILTON