Gee, Maggie, 1923-2013
Maggie Gee was born in Berkeley, California, August 5, 1923. She was a third-generation Chinese American; her maternal grandparents had moved to California from a village in Guangdong. In 1941, Gee enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley to study physics, but dropped out after a few months to work in the drafting department at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, following the United States' entering World War II. She subsequently trained to become a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots).
After her service Gee returned to Berkeley, earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, then worked on weapons systems at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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2024-04-16 11:04:12 am |
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User published constellation |
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2016-08-09 02:08:01 pm |
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2016-08-09 02:08:01 pm |
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Initial ingest from EAC-CPF |
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