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In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's Flight Instrumentation Facility (Building 1202). Young was the first woman hired as a technical employee, a physicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the second female physicist working for the federal government. via NASA ift.tt/2lx2zsi
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Pearl Young at Langley's Flight Instrumentation Facility, March 1929 was taken on March 24, 2015 at 06:44AM