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GRACE MURRAY HOPPER

Timeline of Grace Murray Hopper's life:

• 1906: Grace is born
  Born on December 9th, 1906 in New York City, New York.
• 1925: Grace starts at Vassar College
  Begins school at Vassar College in New York - studying mathematics and physics.
• 1928: Grace graduates
  Graduates from Vassar and moves on to study at Yale University, working on a Master's degree in Mathematics.
• 1930: Grace gets a Degree and gets married
  Gets a Master's degree in Mathematics. Marries Vincent Foster Hopper and becomes Grace Hopper, a name she will keep long after their divorce in 1945.
• 1931: Grace teaches at Vassar & continues studying at Yale
  Becomes a teacher at Vassar and also keeps studying at Yale, hoping to get a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
• 1934: Grace gets a Ph.D. in Mathematics
  Gets her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale, becomes the first woman to earn such a degree.
• 1943: Grace joins the Navy
  Joins the US Naval Reserve in 1943. She opts for the Navy, as it was her grandfather's branch of service.
• 1944: Grace is commissioned as a Lieutenant
  Gets commissioned as lieutenant in 1944 and is assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Project at Harvard.
• 1952: Grace's Team Creates the First Compiler
  Creates the first compiler for computer languages (a compiler renders worded instructions into code that can be read by computers).
• 1967: 2nd timer Navy Officer
  Retires from the Naval Reserve in 1966.
• 1987: Grace's last working years
  Takes another job post-retirement and stays in the computer industry for several more years.
• 1991: Grace gets awarded
  Receives the National Medal of Technology award in becoming the first female individual recipient of the honor.
• 1992: Grace Hopper dies
  Dies at the age of 85, in Arlington, Virginia, on January 1, 1992.
• 2016: Last awards
  Grace is posthumously honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.

Read more about this prodigious personality on her Wikipedia entry.

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