Jeanette Scissum, American Mathematician

Jeanette Alexandra Scissum (born 1940) is a mathematician, space scientist, and diversity advocate who put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle. Scissum was awarded a small scholarship to study at Alabama A&M University which she supplemented by working at a telephone switchboard. She earned her bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics before returning to graduate school to get her PhD in computer science after 13 years at Marshall Space Flight Center. In the 1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of MarshallE??s Space Sciences Laboratory and she led activities in MarshallE??s Atmospheric, Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project. Following the completion of her PhD, she later moved to Maryland to work in Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical support systems. She retired in 2005. No photographer credited, undated

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