This article is about the mathematician. For other uses, see Dorothy Vaughan (disambiguation).
Dorothy Vaughan
Born
Dorothy Jean Johnson
(1910-09-20)September 20, 1910
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died
November 10, 2008(2008-11-10) (aged 98)
Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Education
Wilberforce University (BA)
Spouse
Howard Vaughan
(m. 1932; died 1955)
Children
6
Scientific career
Fields
Fortran Computer Specialist
Institutions
NACA, Langley Research Center
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.
She later was promoted officially to the position of supervisor. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the Fortran programming language. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.
Vaughan is one of the women featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's history Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016). It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name, also released in 2016.
In 2019, Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.[1]
^"H.R.1396 - Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act". Congress.gov. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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