Google Doodle pays tribute to Dilhan Eryurt, the mastermind behind NASA Apollo 11
Google Doodle pays tribute to Dilhan Eryurt, the mastermind behind NASA Apollo 11
Google Doodle is celebrating the life of Dilhan Eryurt with a cartoon of the late Turkish astrophysicist. The picture sees Dilhan Eryurt, who died in 2012, staring at stars and planets, the origins of which she helped uncover for Nasa in the 1960s. Born in western Turkey in 1926, Eryurt graduated with a degree in mathematics and astrophysics from Istanbul University shortly after the end of the Second World War, before moving to Canada in 1959 to work for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
After this experience, Dr. Eryurt worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where she collaborated with Alastair G. W. Cameron, on research on Solar evolution. During this period, she was the only woman astronomer working at the institution.
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