Ada Lovelace
Personal Information
Born: 1815
Died: 1852
Country of Birth: Great Britain
Nationality: Great Britain
Ethnicity: White
Education
Had private tutors including William Frend, William King, Augustus De Morgan & Mary Somerville
Professional Life
Field of Study: Mathmatics
Institution/Corporation: none
Degrees & Memberships: none
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2012, Google Doodle; 2018 NuSat micro-satellite named after her; 2nd Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day; numerous awards, scholarships, lectureships, buildings, schools & fictional characters are among the things named after her
Achievements: only child of Lord & Lady Byron; believed that intuition & imagination were critical to effectively applying mathematical & scientific concepts
1st computer programmer
Her father was Lord Byron, the poet; she was his only legitimate child
Her mother refused to let her see a portrait of her father until her 20th birthday; she had no relationship with her father who died when she was 8 because her mother feared she would inherit his wantonness & insanity
At age 12 she became fixated on learning how to fly & studied the anatomy of birds, ultimately writing a book called "Flyology"
She became a Countess through marriage
She had a gambling habit & accumulated huge debts
she died at age 36 of uterine cancer; she was the same age as her father when he died & was buried next to him