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Which computer pioneer and US Navy Rear Admiral earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in 1934?

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Grace Hopper

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer science who helped develop COBOL, a language designed to be readable like English. She is also famously credited with popularizing the term "debugging" after her team discovered a literal moth causing a malfunction in their computer.

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