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Vaughan was born September 20, 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri, as Dorothy Jean Johnson. [2] She was the daughter of [3] Annie and Leonard Johnson. At the age of seven, her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where she graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925 as her class valedictorian. [4]
Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known for appearing in Slander House (1930), The Ape (1940) and Lady Gangster (1942).
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 ...
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...
Dorothy's trip to Oz was difficult, but she still found a place over the rainbow. After singing about a magical land, she found it and that means you should never stop dreaming about yours. %vine ...
Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) was an American mathematician and human computer. Dorothy Vaughan may also refer to: Dorothy Vaughan (actress) (1890–1955), American actress; Dorothy Vaughan (social reformer) (1881–1974), Australian social reformer
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
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. The 4 by 4 foot (1.2 by 1.2 m), 60,000 horsepower (45 MW) wind tunnel was used to study forces on a model by generating winds at almost twice the speed of ...