I’m still down with any of the following:
1) Abigail Adams, who helped write the founding documents, and defined the active role of the first lady
2) Dorothea Dix, basically defined what it meant to be a nurse, headed the nurses in the Civil War
3) Hedy Lamarr, inventor of spread spectrum technology, essentially the 20th century version of Alexander Graham Bell
As a software engineer, I wouldn't mind Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper, USN, Ph.D. (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992). She was an American computer scientist and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944. Admiral Hopper invented the first compiler for a computer programming language,and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (inspired by an actual moth removed from the computer). Owing to her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".
