Kathleen Booth

Kathleen Booth was born on July 9th, 1922, in Stourbridge, England. At the age of 22, in 1944, she graduated from the University of London and became a Junior Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farmborough until 1946, when she became a Research Scientist at the British Rubber Producers Research Association until 1952. She then taught at the Birkbeck College in London, where she developed the first Assembly Language, which was designed to communicate with the hardware of a computer. She married Andrew Booth in 1950, and together they created three machines: the ARC (Advanced RISC Computing), the SEC, and the APEXC (All Purpose Electronic X Computer). She retired in 1978 and is currently 100 years old.

Minor / Major contributions to computer science:

1. She created the first assembly language, making coding easier for everyone.

2. She created computer assemblers, making it easier to use her coding language.

3. She created many machines to help coders.

Sources used:

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/