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Eight Minoritised Individuals in Scientific Computing
In 2025, while building a new module titled Numerical Methods for Engineering at the University of Hull, I systematically built some of the contributions made by the following eight innovators into the module.
- Alan Turing.
- Katherine Johnson.
- Shakuntala Devi.
- Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- Qian Xuesen.
- Lynn Conway.
- Wu Chien-Shiung*.
- David Blackwell.
The resulting bite-sized materials allow me and other colleagues to use the eight stories to teach social justice concepts such as the wheel of privilege, false colour blindness, and the Conway Effect.
*Strictly speaking, Wu Chien-Shiung did not work in the field, but radioactive decay is frequently simulated by Monte Carlo methods.