While Alan Turing was decrypting Nazi communication across the Atlantic, some eleven thousand women were breaking enemy code in America.
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* writing him love letters in code from her deathbed * decrypting Nazi communication * the women who dressed and fought as men in the Civil War * “Harvard Computers” who revolutionized astronomy * the black women mathematicians who powered space exploration * Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II * public library * paved the way for American women in science * composed her botanical herbarium * the relational genius that makes a forest successful * Sir Francis Bacon * Code Girls * the unheralded women astronomers * Pocket