Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she went to work. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black
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@fasc1nate Jack Black is actually a Cohen Not sure why I'm surprised anymore
@fasc1nate Cool. I was one of those women that worked while in labor, but did nothing as notable as she.
Judith Love Cohen was not just an engineer, but also an author. After her retirement from engineering, she founded a children’s multimedia publishing company. She eventually published more than 20 titles before her death in 2016. This shows her dedication to education and her desire to inspire the next generation of engineers. Cohen’s engineering career began in 1952, when she worked as a junior engineer at North American Aviation. After graduation from USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 1957, she went on to work at Space Technology Laboratories. Space Technology Laboratories eventually became TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002). She stayed with the company until her retirement in 1990. Her engineering work included work on the guidance computer for the Minuteman missile. Cohen was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. By fifth grade, her classmates were paying her to do their math homework. She was often the only girl in her math classes, and decided she wanted to become a math teacher. By age 19, she was studying engineering in college, and dancing ballet in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet company in New York. She received a scholarship to Brooklyn College to major in math, but realized she preferred engineering. After two years at Brooklyn College, Cohen married and moved to California, working as a junior engineer for North American Aviation, attending the University of Southern California (USC) at night1. She said that she went through both her BS and MS programs at USC without ever meeting another female engineering student.
@fasc1nate Giving birth to Jack Black was the greater achievement, sorry.
@fasc1nate No way! I did not know this! Such a cool story.
@fasc1nate No way 🤯 I LOVE Jack Black movies, I never knew this