Vera Atkins, 1908-2000 University of Kansas one of the nation’s first

one of the nation’s first book clubs

hands-down — her incredible

Ada Lovelace was an English Mathematician who is regarded as the world’s first computer programmer

earning a bachelor's and a Ph

Vera Atkins, 1908-2000 University of Kansas one of the nation’s firstIn the 1930s, Vera Atkins and her Jewish mother emigrated to Britain from Bucharest to escape the rise of Fascism. A talented linguist, Atkins joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a branch of British Military Intelligence responsible for training and sending agents overseas. She rose from administrative roles to become an intelligence officer in the French Section of the SOE. At the end of the Second World War, as a member of the British War