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Margaret Hamilton

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17144&amp;oldid=2531981575" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Presidential Medal of Freedom · dated 2016-11-22
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7894081&amp;oldid=2555289019" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Universal Systems Language
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q23548&amp;oldid=2562673423" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5326502&amp;oldid=2541610797" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Earlham College · to 1958
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q30128828&amp;oldid=2376126374" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ada Lovelace Award · dated 1986
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q138875&amp;oldid=2557032447" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apollo Guidance Computer

Wikidata describes Margaret Hamilton as American mathematician and designer of embedded computer systems (1936–2026).

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