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About Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher 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.
Everything about Dorothy Vaughan →- Occupation
- computer scientist, programmer, mathematician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 20, 1910
- Died
- November 10, 2008