Clyde Foster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Clyde Foster

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1931

Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 06-Mar-2017

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Clyde Foster (November 21, 1931 – March 6, 2017) was an American scientist and mathematician.
He worked for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and then for NASA, and from 1975 to 1986 was the head of Equal Employment Opportunity at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
He is credited with setting up training programs that allowed hundreds of African Americans to get the training necessary for positions and promotions at NASA in Huntsville, when Alabama was segregated and African Americans were denied those opportunities.
To that purpose he also helped found a Computer Science program at his alma mater, Alabama A&M University, a historically black university, where he headed the Computer Science program while on loan from NASA.
In 1981 he was awarded the Philip A.
Hart Award for his "significant contribution toward improving urban and working environments". Foster was also a community activist, and helped revive Triana, Alabama, a small majority-African American community near Huntsville; he was instrumental in the community regaining its charter, was a plaintiff in lawsuits filed over DDT pollution in Triana, and for two decades served as its mayor.