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November 10, 2008 (98 years old)
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Virgo
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Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan is an African American mathematician and computer scientist who worked for the National Advisory Committee on Aerospace and NASA, at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became the Supervisory Authority of West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to get a promotion and oversee a group of staff at the center. After that, she was officially promoted to the position of supervisor. During his 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the advent of computers in the early 1960s by teaching himself and his employees the Fortran programming language. She later headed the programming division of the Analysis and Computing Division at Langley. Vaughan is one of the women in Margot's story. Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures: A Tale of African American Women Who Won the Space Race. It was adapted into a biopic of the same name, also released in 2016
BornDorothy Jean Johnson, September 20, 1910, Kansas City, Missouri
DiedNovember 10, 2008, Hampton, Virginia
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNACA, Langley Research Center
Alma materWilberforce University (BA)
Children6

About Dorothy Vaughan

Mathematician Dorothy Vaughan was born on September 20, 1910 in Missouri, United States (She dies at the age of 98, on November 10, 2008).

Her work with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, made her a household name. She'd be the first African-American woman to lead the NACA's personnel department.

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Dorothy Vaughan before becoming famous

Dorothy Vaughan was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1910 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She was working as a mathematics teacher at R.R. Moton High School when Executive Orders 8802 and 9346 were passed, allowing her to be hired to the NACA.

Achievement of Dorothy Vaughan

When she joined NACA, she was assigned to West Area Computers, a section that was segregated according to Virginia Jim Crow legislation. Despite this, she was appointed acting division head in 1949, though she did not get the official title for several years.

Dorothy Vaughan's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She and her husband Howard have a total of six children. One of her four children would go on to work for NASA in the future.

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Hidden Figures, a documentary about her time at NASA, was released in 2016. Actress Movie Actress Octavia Spencer portrayed her.

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Dorothy Vaughan Income & Net worth

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