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Amazing Grace

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:41am December 09 2020

Today is the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper ’34PhD (1906–1992), mathematician, computer pioneer, rear admiral, and—since 2017—namesake of a Yale residential college. She’s shown here in the mid-1940s at Harvard, where she worked on the Mark I computer.

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