Dorothy Vaughan was one of the first African American women who helped pave the way ... She graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1929 with a B.A. in mathematics after receiving a full ...

New historic markers are coming to Hampton as tribute to NASA pioneering mathematicians Dorothy Johnson Vaughan and Mary Winston Jackson, state officials announced Tuesday. The markers celebrating … ...

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan worked as a human computer, doing advanced math to help engineers design airplanes and rockets. She worked for NASA, supervising an office of other human computers. In the ...

DOROTHY VAUGHAN. Dorothy Vaughan is shown in a file photo. (Photo ... to become a Federal Women’s Program Manager where she worked to improve the prospects for NASA’s female mathematicians, ...

Black women played a crucial role providing mathematical data for NASA’s first successful space missions, including Glenn’s pioneering orbital spaceflight.

January 6 was the official nationwide launch of “Hidden Figures,” the biopic about three black women mathematicians–Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson–whose calculations ...

Dorothy Vaughan was one of the first African American women who helped pave the way for the United States in space research. Graduating as valedictorian from her high school in 1925, Dorothy ...

Dorothy Vaughan was one of the first African American women who helped pave the way for the United States in space research. Graduating as valedictorian from her high school in 1925, Dorothy ...