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Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90

American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for NASA's Apollo lunar program, has died at age 90.

American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar program, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said Wednesday. In a statement, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called Hamilton, who taught at the prestigious university from 1959 to the mid-1970s, a "computing pioneer" and said she died on September 30. "To say Margaret Hamilton was a pioneer -- to say she was ahead of her time -- would be a dramatic understatement," said Olivier de Weck, the Apollo Program Professor and interim head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

"She was a software engineer at a time when that field was in its infancy, and she not only developed advanced code herself but also led a team in using that nascent technology to develop one of the most complex systems humanity had ever achieved," Weck added. The famed Apollo program allowed the United States to beat the Soviet Union in the race to become the first humans to land on the Moon. " Born in Indiana in 1936, Hamilton studied mathematics before moving to Boston, Massachusetts with her husband in 1959.



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