Margaret Hamilton — Apollo software pioneer

Hamilton in action in an Apollo mockup — Wikimedia

Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist and systems engineer who made significant contributions in the field of software engineering during the 1960s and 1970s. She is most famous for her leadership of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) programming team at NASA.

Hamilton was born in 1936 in Indiana, but later moved to Michigan. There she studied mathematics and earned a BA degree from…