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Dorothy Vaughan

Problems she had for being a black woman

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Summary of her life

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She was born the 20th of september of 1910 in Kansas city, Misuri, and died the 10th of november of 2008. She was an afroamerican mathematic that worked for NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) and for NASA, but before that she worked as a mathematic teacher for more time than she thought.She specialized for the rest of his career in computing and FORTRAN programming.In his last decade at NASA he worked extensively with Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson, who worked in his African-American calculator group before transferring to other areas, to work on the equations for launching astronaut John Glenn into orbit.

Summary of her life

• All the racism she had because of it.
• The bathrooms of the work place only were for white people, they had another bathroom for black people in a building far from there

Problems she had for being an African-American woman

Tributes

• Vaughan's life is one of three main stories told in the book Hidden Figures, and the film of the same name,4 about the group of African-American mathematicians who were instrumental contributors to the Mercury and Apollo programs. from NASA.
• A ÑuSat satellite of the Aleph constellation bears his name.