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Evelyn Boyd Granville played a prominent role in helping NASA land on the moon. Granville is considered one of the acclaimed "Hidden Figures."

Boyd received an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in 1945. She received a doctoral degree in mathematics in 1949 from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied under Einar Hille. She was the second African American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics. From 1949 to 1950 she had a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University, and from 1950 to 1952 she was an associate professor of mathematics at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1952 Boyd became a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in ...