She graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor of science degree in the spring of 1945.
After college, she went to work at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and early in 1950 transferred to the newly created Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was a research engineer for more than 30 years, retiring in January 1981. She worked on the Mars Viking Landers and Explorers satellites. In 1975, NASA awarded her a citation and medal for Excellence in Service for her contributions to scientific knowledge of the moon. She worked with Werner von Braun and Richard Feynman.
Her first husband was Peter John Buwalda (Nov. 28, 1923 - March 27, 1965), son of famed structural geologist John Peter Buwalda, the first chairman of Caltech's Geology Division and Imra Wann Buwalda, one of the first policewomen in the city of Washington, DC. They married on June 24, 1950 in Las Angeles, CA.
After college, she went to work at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and early in 1950 transferred to the newly created Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was a research engineer for more than 30 years, retiring in January 1981. She worked on the Mars Viking Landers and Explorers satellites. In 1975, NASA awarded her a citation and medal for Excellence in Service for her contributions to scientific knowledge of the moon. She worked with Werner von Braun and Richard Feynman.
Her first husband was Peter John Buwalda (Nov. 28, 1923 - March 27, 1965), son of famed structural geologist John Peter Buwalda, the first chairman of Caltech's Geology Division and Imra Wann Buwalda, one of the first policewomen in the city of Washington, DC. They married on June 24, 1950 in Las Angeles, CA.
She graduated from Pomona College with a bachelor of science degree in the spring of 1945.
After college, she went to work at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and early in 1950 transferred to the newly created Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was a research engineer for more than 30 years, retiring in January 1981. She worked on the Mars Viking Landers and Explorers satellites. In 1975, NASA awarded her a citation and medal for Excellence in Service for her contributions to scientific knowledge of the moon. She worked with Werner von Braun and Richard Feynman.
Her first husband was Peter John Buwalda (Nov. 28, 1923 - March 27, 1965), son of famed structural geologist John Peter Buwalda, the first chairman of Caltech's Geology Division and Imra Wann Buwalda, one of the first policewomen in the city of Washington, DC. They married on June 24, 1950 in Las Angeles, CA.
After college, she went to work at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and early in 1950 transferred to the newly created Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was a research engineer for more than 30 years, retiring in January 1981. She worked on the Mars Viking Landers and Explorers satellites. In 1975, NASA awarded her a citation and medal for Excellence in Service for her contributions to scientific knowledge of the moon. She worked with Werner von Braun and Richard Feynman.
Her first husband was Peter John Buwalda (Nov. 28, 1923 - March 27, 1965), son of famed structural geologist John Peter Buwalda, the first chairman of Caltech's Geology Division and Imra Wann Buwalda, one of the first policewomen in the city of Washington, DC. They married on June 24, 1950 in Las Angeles, CA.
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