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Vaughan was born September 20, 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri, as Dorothy Jean Johnson. [2] She was the daughter of [ 3 ] Annie and Leonard Johnson. At the age of seven, her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia , where she graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925 as her class valedictorian . [ 4 ]
Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.
Her writing career seemed to take off in 1930, when she sold her first short story to The Saturday Evening Post for $400. [4] [5] Johnson did not sell another story, though, for 11 years, until in 1941, four stories narrated by a recurring character, "Beulah Bunny", sold to The Saturday Evening Post for $2,100.
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
The Johnson County Museum has renewed its Sensory Friendly Mondays program, which includes Kid Scape, a 3,500-square-foot interactive low-sensory history exhibit designed for children ages 2 to 9.
Dorothy M. Johnson (1905–1984), American author of Western fiction Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970), American poet and educator Dorothy E. Johnson (1919–1999), American nursing theorist
Dorothy E. Johnson (August 21, 1919 – February 4, 1999) [1] was an American nurse, researcher, author, and theorist. She is known for creating the behavioral system model and for being one of the founders of modern system-based nursing theory .
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.