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Kathleen Booth was born on July 9, 1922, in Stourbridge, England. She graduated from the University of London in 1944. She was then a Junior Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farmborough for 2 years before becoming a Research Scientist at the British Rubber Producers Research Association for 6. For 10 years after that, from 1952 to 1962, she was a professor at the Birkbeck College in London. It was there that she developed the first ever Assembly coding language and created assemblers for the computers at the college. She married Andrew Booth, someone else who worked there, in 1950, and they had two children. They created three machines together, the ARC, the SEC, and the APEXC. She retired in 1978 and is currently 100 years old. |
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Accomplishments to Computer Science:
An assembly language, which was created by Kathleen Booth.
Sources:
https://www.ithistory.org/honor-roll/dr-kathleen-booth-nee-britten
https://dbpedia.org/page/Kathleen_Booth
https://hackaday.com/2018/08/21/kathleen-booth-assembling-early-computers-while-inventing-assembly/
https://sites.google.com/wheelermagnet.com/john-leiths-portfolio/home?authuser=1