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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.
Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
In 1949, Dorothy Vaughan was put in charge of supervising the West Computers. She was the first African American manager at NASA. Vaughan was a mathematician who worked at Langley from 1943 through her retirement in 1971.
Last week, NASA honored the women of the Apollo missions, including Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad’s mother, Vivian Ayers Allen. […]
She worked under Dorothy Vaughan in the segregated West Area Computing Section. [ 5 ] In 1953, she accepted an offer to work for engineer Kazimierz Czarnecki in the Supersonic Pressure Tunnel.
It follows Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the Cold War, and the Space Race, the book depicts the work that Johnson, Jackson, and Vaughan did for NASA (previously National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) as Computers at the Langley Research Center. [1]
"[Dorothy] was just breathtakingly beautiful," actress Colleen Camp told ABC News, who worked alongside her in 1981's They All Laughed. "There was something very otherworldly about being with her …