Dedicated to Dorthy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was an American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and was the first African American manager at the NASA.
Dorthy was born September 20, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1917 Johnson’s family moved from Missouri to West Virginia. She earned a degree in mathematics from Wilberforce University. She worked as a math teacher in Virginia.
In December 1943 she started working for NASA’s West Area Computing unit, a group of African American female mathematicians who were considered “human computers."
Vaughan served as head of the West Computers until NASA was incorporated into the newly created NASA, which closed the segregated facilities. Vaughan became an expert at FORTRAN. She retired from NASA in 1971.
In 2016 a book by Margot Lee Shetterly, "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race" bought attention to Vaughan. Also including Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson.
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Dedicated to Dorthy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was an American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and was the first African American manager at the NASA.
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