John von Neumann and Klara Dan von Neumann, another couple where both together were engaged in scientific and/or technical research reminiscent of the famous Curie couple.
Wikipedia summarizes: "was a [Jewish] Hungarian-American self-taught computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. ..."
I am afraid, the Wikipedia entry of her is possibly incomplete.
Her collaboration with Nick Metropolis is not mentioned in her entry, but indirectly in the Wikipedia entry for the MANIAC computer: "... In the 1940’s Nick Metropolis, a young physicist, designed new controls for the state-of-the-art computer (ENIAC) with Klari Von Neumann, John’s wife. He (Nicholas Metropolis) was fascinated with Monte Carlo methods and this new computing device. Soon he designed an improved computer, which he named the MANIAC in the hope that computer scientists would stop using acronyms. ..." (Source)
She lived only 52 years, but she had 4 husbands!
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