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Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (Kansas City, 20 de setembro de 1910 — Hampton, 10 de novembro de 2008), foi uma matemática estadunidense, que trabalhou na National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), a agência predecessora da NASA.
Conheça a trajetória de Dorothy Vaughan, a primeira supervisora negra da história da NASA, que se destacou na corrida espacial e na introdução dos computadores. Saiba como ela superou o racismo, aprendeu a programar e contribuiu para as missões espaciais.
27 de jun. de 2023 · Learn about Dorothy Vaughan, who led the segregated West Area Computing Unit at NACA/NASA from 1949 to 1958. She was a respected mathematician, a pioneer for women and minorities in the agency, and a FORTRAN programmer.
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.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and who was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became part of NASA.
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- Dorothy Vaughan was a computer programmer who made important contributions to the U.S. space program. She was relatively unknown until 2016, when a...
- Dorothy Vaughan performed complex computations and analyzed data for aerospace engineers, work that was later essential to the success of the early...
- Dorothy Vaughan’s employer, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, was segregated, and black employees were forced to use separate bathro...
Dorothy Vaughan (20 de setembro de 1910 - 10 de novembro de 2008) foi uma matemática e computador afro-americana. Em seu tempo trabalhando para a NASA, ela se tornou a primeira mulher afro-americana a ocupar um cargo de supervisão e ajudou a transição da instituição para a programação de computadores .
25 de mai. de 2017 · Learn about Dorothy Vaughan, the first African-American female supervisor of the NACA and an expert in digital computers. She supported aeronautical and space programs with her mathematical calculations and advocated for the rights of all computers.
