Mathematician Mary Tsingou Menzel, who waited 50 years for credit, has died
sonabinu · hn · 2026-10-14
Per the New York Times, mathematician Mary Tsingou Menzel has died. She made key contributions to computations on the Manhattan Project but was long uncredited, waiting nearly 50 years for proper recognition of her work.
Her story became a landmark case of erased female contributors in computing history; the HN thread discusses attribution and academic credit.
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