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Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at…
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science · American human computer and computer programmer (1910–2008) · computer scientist · programmer · mathematician · also Dorothy Vaughan, Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan, Vaughan
Born 20 September 1910 · Died 10 November 2008 · Q22915129
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NASA Johnson Space Center's central data office, known as Building 12, was renamed as the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo" as a "tribute to the people who made humanity's first steps on the Moon p
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A satellite named after her was launched into space
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The Vaughan crater on the far side of the Moon was named in her honor
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Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously
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Published “BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis” in PLOS Computational Biology — cited 4,226 times.
Published “Welcome to the Tidyverse” in Journal of Open Source Software — cited 20,667 times.
Vaughan was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
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Published “2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice” in European Heart Journal — cited 5,666 times.
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,857 times.
Published “BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis” in PLoS Computational Biology — cited 6,055 times.
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
Died 2008-11-10.
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Aged 98 and was buried at Hampton Memorial Gardens
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A scholarship fund with the Salem Community Foundation was created under Dorothy Vaughan’s name to further music training by the Salem Music Study Club
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Published “Brain–computer interfaces for communication and control” in Clinical Neurophysiology — cited 6,383 times.
After NACA introduced the first digital computers to the center
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Became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center
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Vaughan was assigned as the acting head of the West Area Computers, taking over from a woman who had died
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Vaughan began a 28-year-career as a human computer and computer programmer at Langley Research Center where she came to perform calculations for flight paths, the Scout Project, and computer programming
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Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, established its first female computing pool
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Studied at Wilberforce University, Bachelor of Science (1929).
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Born 1910-09-20.
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