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Mary Sherman Morgan was a U.S. rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1.
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Instead, George D. Morgan researched this biography with numerous interviews of his mother's now retired fellow engineers, family and acquaintances. Published in 2013 by Prometheus Books, the story of Mary Sherman Morgan was first told in stage play format at Cal Tech, where Mr. Morgan is the Playwright in Residence.
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Born on her family's farm in Ray, North Dakota, Mary was kept out of school so she could help her father with farm work. The authorities soon intervened, and she was sent to attend the small-town schoolhouse. Being a few years behind didn't hold her back, and by the time she graduated high school, she represented her class as valedictorian.
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Mary Sherman Morgan was born November 4, 1921 in the small farming community of Ray, North Dakota. Her parents, Michael and Dorothy Sherman, preferred to keep Mary on the farm doing chores.
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Today is the birthday of rocket fuel scientist Mary Sherman Morgan, who was born in Ray, North Dakota in 1921. During World War II she interrupted her studies as a chemistry major at Minot State University to take a job designing explosives at a factory in Ohio. In the 1950s she began working at the company North American Aviation, which won a contract to formulate a more powerful rocket fuel.
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Instead, George D. Morgan researched this biography with numerous interviews of his mother's now retired fellow engineers, family and acquaintances. Published in 2013 by Prometheus Books, the story of Mary Sherman Morgan was first told in stage play format at Cal Tech, where Mr. Morgan is the Playwright in Residence.
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Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contributions powered the US's first satelliteRemembering the US's first female rocket scientistIn 1957, the space race was hea.
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Mary Sherman Morgan's family would remember her as a 'homebody', rooted to the dining room table, often mumbling to herself irritably, with a coffee, cigarette, deck of cards for solitaire.
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Mary Sherman Morgan was born in 1921 to a large farming household in North Dakota and didn't attend school until she was nine years old. She won a scholarship to attend college in Ohio, but the.
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In the early 1950s, Mary Sherman Morgan became the first female rocket scientist in the US. Now her son tells the story of her journey from North Dakota farm girl to brilliant analyst whose.
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A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book "Prolific STEM writer Slade spotlights Mary Sherman Morgan (1921-2004) and her role in the launch of the US's first successful satellite. Comport's lively illustrations—rendered using color pencil, traditional collage, digital collage, and digital paint—combine dramatic perspectives, facsimiles of space-race ephemera.
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The Shermans were a hard family, and they bred hard, resourceful children, of whom their fifth was a daughter named Mary (1921-2004) who would go on to save the nation's reputation in its darkest scientific hour.
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Mary Sherman Morgan raised a fine son. Actually, she raised five children: two boys and three girls. But before she retired to attend to her family full time, she worked as a chemist, first during the Second World War for Plum Brook Ordnance Works, testing the purity of nitric acid used in explosives, and later for North American Aviation, where she invented the liquid fuel hydyne (the first.
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How Mary Sherman Morgan fueled America into space Suzanne Slade Book - 2022 Chronicles the life of the first female rocket scientist who, chosen to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite, broke gender barriers and overcame many challenges to succeed. Place a Hold Save to List Email this Holdings
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Sun 26 Apr 2020 — updated 9 Oct 2023 This is the story of how Mary Sherman Morgan, who, having minimal options as an unqualified young woman with an illegitimate child, saved the US Space Programme. Mary Sherman Morgan is perhaps an unlikely hero of the space race and certainly an underappreciated one.
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In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.