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Grace Hopper Research Paper

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Grace Hopper was only a young girl when she took interest into the fields of math and science. Born Grace Murray in New York City on December 9, 1906 to her mother, Mary Campbell Van Horne Murray, an accomplished Mathematician and her father, a successful life insurance executive, Walter Fletcher Murray, who was quite liberal and, against societal norms, “made no distinction when it came to educating his son and two daughters” (Beyer, 25). Grace grew up with her sister, born Mary Murray and later married as Mary Murray Westcote and her brother, Roger Franklin Murray II, later earning the title of Dr. Roger Franklin Murray II. Ms. Hopper grew up in an Anglo-Saxon family and lived in the family home, 316 West 95th Street in New York City,

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