Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grace Hopper portrait

Grace Hopper portrait

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Original – Grace Hopper, nicknamed "Amazing Grace" because of her significant accomplishments, was a pioneering computer scientist and eventually a rear admiral in the US Navy. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, and is sometimes called "the mother of COBOL". A US Navy ship and a supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center were named in her honor. Note that her rank was called commodore at the time, and is currently officially called rear admiral (lower half).

Reason

Notable person, and this seems to be the best quality photo that we have.

Articles in which this image appears

Grace Hopper

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

James S. Davis

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 18:32, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Though I may not be crazy about the DOF here, this is a striking image (the contrast of her small body and the flag) and an important pioneer in computer technology. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:38, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support for the 80s, it's quite good. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:37, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Good EV, nice lighting and composition, high resolution. Kaldari (talk) 23:44, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - A good photograph that does what a FP should: it made me curious (I read an article I otherwise wouldn't, and I learned something new).--Godot13 (talk) 08:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Nominator's reasons. Alborzagros (talk) 12:01, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- Bellus Delphina ^talk 12:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN (covered).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:37, 15 October 2014 (UTC)