Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen (August 16, 1933 – July 25, 2016) was an American aerospace engineer. She was an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program. In particular, her work on the Abort-Guidance System is credited with helping save Apollo 13. After her retirement from engineering, she founded a children's multimedia publishing company, eventually publishing more than 20 titles before her death in 2016. She was the mother of computer scientist and engineer Neil Siegel and actor-musician Jack Black.

Early life and education Cohen was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Sarah Cohen (née Roisman) and Morris Bernard Cohen. By fifth grade, her classmates were paying her to do their math homework. She was often the only girl in her math classes, and decided she wanted to become a math teacher. By age 19, she was studying engineering in college, and dancing ballet in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet company in New York. and continued her association with the university, serving as an Astronautical Engineering Advisory board member. pp. III-17,32,35,40 According to her son Neil:

Personal life In the early 1950s, Cohen married fellow engineer Bernard Siegel, whom she met while a freshman in engineering school at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York. They had three children: engineer/scientist Neil Siegel, Howard Siegel, and Rachel Siegel. The couple divorced in the mid-1960s. The couple divorced in 1979.

Cohen died of cancer in 2016. (2007). Un Cielo Limpio: La Historia del Calentamiento Global (in Spanish) (with Robyn Friend) (2008). A Clean City: The Green Construction Story. (with Robyn Friend) (2009). A Clean Planet: The Solar Power Story. (with Robyn Friend) (2011). A Clean Earth: The Geothermal Story. (with Robyn Friend) (2012). A Cleaner Port. A Brighter Future. The Greening of the Port of Los Angeles. (with Robyn Friend, Lee Rathbone, and David Katz) (2015). Future Engineering: The Clean Water Challenge. (with Robyn Friend) (2015). Los Angeles' Clean Energy Future. (with Robyn Friend and David Katz) (2015). Los Angeles' Water Future. (with Robyn Friend and David Katz) You Can Be series 2005: You Can Be a Woman Makeup Artist or Costume Designer (with Robyn Friend) 2004: You Can Be a Woman Animator (with Vicky Jenson) 1992: You Can Be a Woman Architect 1995: You Can Be a Woman Astronomer 1999: You Can Be a Woman Basketball Player 1999: You Can Be a Woman Botanist 1996: You Can Be a Woman Cardiologist 2005: You Can Be a Woman Chemist 1999: You Can Be a Woman Egyptologist 1995: You Can Be a Woman Engineer 2002: You Can Be a Woman Entomologist 2005: You Can Be a Woman Video Game Producer 2003: You Can Be a Woman Movie Maker (with Mary McLaglen, Maureen Gosling and Paula Weinstein) 2001: You Can Be a Woman Marine Biologist 2002: You Can Be a Woman Meteorologist 1994: You Can Be a Woman Oceanographer (with Sharon E. Franks, Sharon Roth Franks) 1993: You Can Be a Woman Paleontologist 2000: You Can Be a Woman Soccer Player (with Tisha Lea Venturini) 2000: You Can Be a Woman Softball Player 1992: You Can Be a Woman Zoologist Tu Puedes Ser series Tu Puedes Ser Una Ingeniera Tu Puedes Ser Una Arquitecta Tu Puedes Ser Biologa Marina Tu Puedes Ser Una Zoologa Tu Puedes Ser Una Oceanografa Other