Timeline

1906: Grace Brewster Murray is born


1928: Graduates Vassar with degrees in mathematics and physics


1930: Marries Vincent Foster Hopper


1934: Earns Ph.D in math at Yale


1943: Joins the U.S. Navy


1944: Graduates the Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s school at Smith College first in her class


1944: Reports for duty at Harvard University to work on the Mark I


1945: Divorces Husband Vincent Hopper


1945: Harvard Mark I is the world's most easily programmable large computer


1945: Visits the ENIAC


1946: Finishes "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator"


1946: Is awarded the Naval Ordnance Development Award


1969: Is awarded the first computer science Man-of-the-Year Award


1986: Retires from the Navy


1992: Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper’s death