Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory...
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African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked at...
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Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) was an American mathematician and human computer. Dorothy Vaughan may also refer to: Dorothy Vaughan (actress) (1890–1955)...
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Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known...
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(2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy...
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assigned to the West Area Computers section supervised by mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, Johnson was reassigned to the Guidance and Control Division of Langley's...
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NASA. The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three mathematicians who worked as computers (then...
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Research Center in her hometown of Hampton, Virginia. She worked under Dorothy Vaughan in the segregated West Area Computing Section. In 1953, she accepted...
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honor of some of NASA's black women mathematicians, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary W. Jackson, who were the central characters in the 2016 film...
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Enfield, South Australia (redirect from Dorothy Vaughan (social reformer))
government in 1947, it was renamed Vaughan House Training School for Girls, named after Adelaide social reformer Dorothy Vaughan (1881–1974), and used as a government-run...
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hymnwriter, translator Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African American mathematician and human computer who worked for NACA and NASA Dorothy Vest (1919–2013)...
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Ewart Ohm (4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016), known professionally as Peter Vaughan, was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British...
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Supporting Actress. She was Oscar-nominated for her playing mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in the drama Hidden Figures (2016), and Zelda Fuller, a custodian in...
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National Garden of American Heroes (redirect from Statue of Dorothy Vaughan)
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architect Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African American mathematician Dustin Vaughan (born 1991), American football player Edwin Campion Vaughan (1897–1931)...
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trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and engineer Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe). Kevin...
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October 2019. It is named after the American mathematician Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008). Vaughan Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical...
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begun hiring black women as computers from 1940. One such computer was Dorothy Vaughan who began her work in 1943 with the Langley Research Center as a special...
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Figures (2016) – African-American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are featured in this film about the early years of...
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Harris Paula Moonlight Nicole Kidman Sue Brierley Lion Octavia Spencer Dorothy Vaughan Hidden Figures Michelle Williams Randi Chandler Manchester by the Sea...
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" 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...
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largest single-site housing project ever built. Taylor married Laura Dorothy Vaughan Jennings, with whom he had two daughters, Lauretta and Barbara. He...
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Land died on 7 October 2012 in Hampton, Virginia. Katherine Johnson Dorothy Vaughan Mary Jackson "Bonnie Land Obituary". Daily Press Obituaries. Archived...
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the 1940s to the 1960s. It follows Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the...
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other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, who had careers of decades at NASA. Among Johnson's projects was calculating...
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stars Hugh Herbert, Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dorothy Vaughan and Clarence Wilson. The film was released by Warner Bros. on August...
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O'Neill) Isabel Jewell as Hysterical Mother David Leonard as Blind Man Dorothy Vaughan as Delia Edgar Dearing as Policeman The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir...
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Jamie Viola Davis Fences Rose Maxson Octavia Spencer Hidden Figures Dorothy Vaughan Michelle Williams Manchester by the Sea Randi Chandler 2017 Laurie...
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Kidman – Lion as Sue Brierley Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea as Randi Chandler Best Original...
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Sarah Lois Vaughan (/vɔːn/, March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won two...
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