But it was a pretty huge team effort and you will never know of that boring white middle age man who did equally as important engineering or mathematical work.
There is not necessarily wrong with it but it is pretty funny when I think about famous programmers my mind goes to Ada Lovelace, Margret Hamilton, Grace Hopper, Denis Ritchie and Linus Torvalds.
All great programmers and I know others exists but those are the ones I think I hear the most about I think.
Precisely! They have not gone unrecognized unlike the hundreds of thousands of other NASA ground staff.
> they were ignored for so long.
They never were ignored. They have recently been elevated above all the other NASA ground staff.
His work was not as significant. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer#Technical... to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents
You know of Watson and Crick, but not Rosalind Franklin. By you, I mean the general you.
You are obviously enormously invested in completely ignoring social conditions women and people of color overcame to do what they did.
Of all things, in a thread on the occasion of her death - for a few, what we get is anger and indignation in reading about this woman's accomplishments. Think about that.