10 Facts About Margaret Smagorinsky

Margaret Smagorinsky was an American statistician, computer programmer, and pioneering weather technologist.

Margaret Smagorinsky was the first female statistician hired by the US Weather Bureau and the wife of meteorologist Joseph Smagorinsky.

Margaret Smagorinsky loved learning from an early age and was the first member of her family to attend college when she attended Brooklyn College.

Margaret Smagorinsky took the civil service exam for a statistical clerk in the US.

Margaret Smagorinsky was offered a job at the Railroad Retirement Board in Washington, DC, where she worked as a statistician processing paperwork for employees looking to enter the civil service.

At age 26, Margaret Smagorinsky joined the Weather Bureau, where she was the first woman statistician.

Margaret Smagorinsky was 8 years her junior, and they married on May 29,1948.

Margaret Smagorinsky had five children: Anne, Peter, Teresa, Julia, and Frederick, and left full-time government employment after her first child was born in 1951.

Margaret Smagorinsky, in supporting her husband's work, processed data and programmed the ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.

Margaret Smagorinsky is cited as a programmer of computers for 5-day weather forecast models created by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.