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Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center.
Jun 28, 2024 · Dorothy Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943, during the height of World War II, leaving her position as the math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA to take what she believed would be a temporary war job. Two years after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 into law, prohibiting racial, religious and ethnic discrimination in the country’s defense industry, the Laboratory began hiring black women to meet the skyrocketing ...
Jul 19, 2024 · Dorothy Vaughan (born September 20, 1910, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died November 10, 2008, Hampton, Virginia) was an American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and who was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an African American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise a staff at the center.
May 25, 2017 · Dorothy J. Vaughan (1910–2008) was the first African-American female supervisor of the NACA, advancing to become an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs. Vaughan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and at an early age her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia. After receiving a full-tuition scholarship, she earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics at the age of only 19 from Wilberforce University, a historically black college in Wilberforce, Ohio.
Aug 21, 2019 · Dorothy Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an African American mathematician and computer. In her time working for NASA, she became the first African American woman to hold a supervisory position and helped the institution transition to computer programming.
Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician and NASA scientist, was an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs. In 1917 Johnson’s family moved from Missouri to West Virginia. She later earned a degree in mathematics (1929) from Wilberforce University near Xenia , Ohio. She worked as a math teacher in Virginia and married Howard ...
Jan 7, 2017 · Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was a teacher who became a leading mathematical engineer in the first aerospace program with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the first African American woman promoted to supervisor in the program. Vaughan was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 20, 1910, to Leonard and Anne Johnson. Her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1917.
Sep 20, 2020 · Dorothy Vaughan was born on 20 September 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. Showing keen intellect from an early age, Vaughan was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend Wilberforce University in Ohio. After graduating, Vaughan worked as a maths teacher for 14 years before joining fellow African-American female mathematicians at the West Area Computing Unit in 1943. The unit was situated in NASA’s predecessor NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’), in Langley Memorial ...
Jan 24, 2017 · Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008) Vaughan joined the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943 after beginning her career as a math teacher in Farmville, Virginia. Her job during World War II was ...
