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Dorothy Vaughan

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Mathematician
Died
Nov 10, 2008
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Missouri
About
Mathematician most well known for her work with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She would become the first African-American woman to be head of personnel at the NACA.
Family
She and her husband Howard had six children together. One of her four children would eventually go on to work at NASA.

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