About science and women

1. MARY JACKSON

2. Career
After graduation, Jackson taught
math at a black school in Calvert
County, Maryland, for a year. Public
schools were still segregated across
the South. She also began tutoring
high school and college students,
which she continued to do
After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had
achieved the most senior title within
the engineering department.

3. • Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921. She was an
American mathematician and aerospace engineer, who
worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
which later became NASA. She worked at the Langley Research
Center most of her life, starting as a calculator in the West
Area Calculus division, and later becoming NASA's first black
engineer. After 34 years at NASA, Jackson reached the highest
possible position for engineers, and realized that he could not
climb higher without being a supervisor. At this point she
decided to accept a degradation to become director of two
programs at the same time: Federal Women's Program in the
office of Equal Opportunities, and the Affirmative Action
Program. In these positions she worked to influence as much
in the hiring as in the promotion of women in NASA, in the
field of science, engineering and mathematics.
BIOGRAPHY

4. • Apollo Group Achievement Award, 1969.
• Daniels Alumni Award por un servicio excepcional a jóvenes en desventaja.
• Consejo Nacional Publicacionesde Mujeres Negras, Inc. Certificado de
Reconocimiento por Servicio Excepcional a la Comunidad.
• Distinguished Service Award por su trabajo con la Campaña Federal
Combinada que representa a las Agencias Humanitarias, 1972.
• Premio excepcional del voluntario del Centro de Investigación de Langley,
1975.
• Voluntario del Año del Centro de Investigación de Langley, 1976.
• Iota Lambda Premio de la Hermandad de la Península Excepcional Mujer
Científica, 1976.
• Premio excepcional del Centro Comunitario de King Street.
• Tribute Award de la Asociación Técnica Nacional, 1976.
• Capítulo de Hampton Roads "Libro de Golden Deeds" para el servicio.
• Langley Centro de Investigación Certificado de Agradecimiento, 1976-1977.
AWARS AND HONORS

5. • Czarnecki, K. R.; Jackson, Mary W. (September 1958), , National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics
• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K.R. (1960), Investigation by Schlieren Technique of Methods of Fixing
Fully Turbulent Flow on Models at Supersonic Speeds, 242, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
• Czarnecki, K. R.; Jackson, Mary W. (January 1961), NASA Langley Research Center
• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K. R. (July 196, NASA Langley Research Center
• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, Mary W.; Monta, William J. (1963), Studies of Skin Friction at Supersonic
Speeds (Turbulent Boundary Layer and Skin Friction Data for Supersonic Transports)
• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K. R.; Monta, William J. (July 1965), Turbulent Skin Friction at High
Reynolds Numbers and Low Supersonic Velocities, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, M.W.; Sorrells, R. B. III (December 1, 19, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
• Czarnecki, K.R.; Allen, J. M.; Jackson, M.W. (January 1, 1967),, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, M.W. (November 1, 1970), National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, Mary W. (December 1975). AIAA Journal. 13 (12): 1585–15
PUBLICATIONS

6. The 2016 film Hidden Figures recounts the
NASA careers of Jackson, Katherine Johnson,
and Dorothy Vaughan, specifically their work
on Project Mercury during the Space Race.
The film is based on the book of the same
name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Jackson is
portrayed in the film by Janelle Monáe
LEGACY