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Washington D.C., USA
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
She worked in computing.
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Evelyn Boyd Granville's family name was Boyd, so she grew up as Evelyn Boyd.Meet Evelyn Boyd Granville, the mathematician who mass produced computers and shot Apollo into space A space scientist's life in pictures.
The name Granville, by which she is now known, is the name she took after her second marriage but, for the sake of simplicity, we shall refer to her during this article as Granville even from her childhood days.
Evelyn Boyd Granville's father was William Boyd who had various jobs including that of a janitor, chauffeur, and a messenger.
Evelyn's mother was Julia Boyd; she had been a secretary before her marriage but gave up work to bring up her family. The Great Depression began in 1929 when Granville was five years old, and by 1932 one quarter of the workers in the United States were unemployed.
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