Although Easley never had a movie made of her life, she was a hidden figure in her own right as a barrier-breaking mathematician and rocket scientist who worked on countless NASA projects for over 30 years. Watch Queue Queue Annie J. Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She was a leading member of the team which developed software …

She worked for the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Annie Jean Easley was born in 1933 and raised by … Sign in. Against the odds. Today, I’d like to tell you more about this genius mathematician and programming wiz. Although Easley never had a movie made of her life, she was a hidden figure in her own right as a barrier-breaking mathematician and rocket scientist who worked on countless NASA projects for over 30 years. Here at Ponicode, we loved the 2016 movie Hidden Figures, but they left out our favorite “hidden figure”: Annie Easley. Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. Annie Jean Easley was born in 1933 and raised by her single mother in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations. Annie Easley had never heard of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) when she read an article about twin sisters who were “human computers” at … Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe.