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6\namesection{Dorothy Jean Johnson}{Vaughan}{September 20, 1910 \textendash{} November 10, 2008 | Newport News and Hampton, Virginia
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9\section{Education}
10\subsection{Wilberforce University}
11\descript{Mathematics, cum laude}
12\location{1929}
13\sectionsep
14\section{Named for her}
15Vaughan crater, far side of the Moon, 2019 \\
16ÑuSat 12, a satellite, 2020 \\
17Dorothy Vaughan Center, Johnson Space Center Building 12, 2024 \\
18Dorothy J. Vaughan Academy of Technology, Charlotte, 2017 \\
19\sectionsep
20\section{Fields}
21\subsection{Mathematics}
22Human computing \textbullet{} FORTRAN programming \\
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27\section{Experience}
28\runsubsection{Langley Research Center}
29\descript{| Human computer, programmer}
30\location{1943 \textendash{} 1971 | Hampton, Virginia}
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32\item {}Assigned in 1943 to West Area Computing, a segregated unit of African-American women who made aeronautical calculations by hand; Jim Crow laws required separate work, dining and bathroom facilities.
33\item {}Acting head of the West Area Computers from 1949, the first Black supervisor at NACA; later promoted officially.
34\item {}When NACA became NASA in 1958, the segregated facilities, the West Computing office among them, were abolished.
35\item {}After digital computers arrived at the center in 1961, she taught herself FORTRAN and taught it to her coworkers; work on the Scout Launch Vehicle Program.
36\item {}With many of the former West Computers, joined the Analysis and Computation Division, a racially and gender-integrated group, and headed its programming section.
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38\sectionsep
39\runsubsection{Robert Russa Moton High School}
40\descript{| Mathematics teacher}
41\location{Fourteen years | Farmville, Virginia}
42\begin{tightemize}
43\item {}Taught during the Great Depression, in public schools racially segregated under Jim Crow laws.
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45\sectionsep
46\section{Afterwards}
47\runsubsection{Hidden Figures}
48\descript{| Margot Lee Shetterly}
49\location{2016}
50A history of the African-American women computers at Langley, and a film of the same name.
51
52\sectionsep
53\runsubsection{Congressional Gold Medal}
54\location{2019}
55Awarded posthumously.
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Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan
September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008 | Newport News and Hampton, Virginia
EDUCATION
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY
Mathematics, cum laude
1929
NAMED FOR HER
Vaughan crater, far side of the Moon, 2019
ÑuSat 12, a satellite, 2020
Dorothy Vaughan Center, Johnson Space
Center Building 12, 2024
Dorothy J. Vaughan Academy of
Technology, Charlotte, 2017
FIELDS
MATHEMATICS
Human computing • FORTRAN
programming
EXPERIENCE
LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER | Human computer, programmer
1943 – 1971 | Hampton, Virginia
• Assigned in 1943 to West Area Computing, a segregated unit of
African-American women who made aeronautical calculations by hand; Jim
Crow laws required separate work, dining and bathroom facilities.
• Acting head of the West Area Computers from 1949, the first Black supervisor
at NACA; later promoted officially.
• When NACA became NASA in 1958, the segregated facilities, the West
Computing office among them, were abolished.
• After digital computers arrived at the center in 1961, she taught herself
FORTRAN and taught it to her coworkers; work on the Scout Launch Vehicle
Program.
• With many of the former West Computers, joined the Analysis and
Computation Division, a racially and gender-integrated group, and headed its
programming section.
ROBERT RUSSA MOTON HIGH SCHOOL | Mathematics teacher
Fourteen years | Farmville, Virginia
• Taught during the Great Depression, in public schools racially segregated under
Jim Crow laws.
AFTERWARDS
HIDDEN FIGURES | Margot Lee Shetterly
2016
A history of the African-American women computers at Langley, and a film of the
same name.
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL 2019
Awarded posthumously.