Happy Birthday NASA Mathematician Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
🎂Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, born September 20, 1910, was a mathematician who worked for NASA who taught herself how to use machine computers in the early 1960s. She taught herself and her staff the pioneering computer language Fortran. She specialized in calculations for flight paths. She pushed past career and academic barriers placed in front of women and African Americans in general throughout her 98 years. NASA on The Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Latest posts by Ronald Bunn (see all)