About Doris Cohen
Doris Cohen was a mathematician.
Doris Cohen was a twentieth-century American mathematician and aerodynamicist. She worked at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, a precursor to NASA). In 1941, a research report she published made her NACA's first female author.
She was married to, and worked with, aerodynamicist R. T. Jones. With him, she co-founded Vega Instrument Co., a telescope manufacturing company, in 1957.
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