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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.
It follows Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Christine Darden. Set against the backdrop of World War II , the Cold War , and the Space Race , the book depicts the work that Johnson, Jackson, and Vaughan did for NASA (previously National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ) as Computers at the Langley Research Center . [ 1 ]
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
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 ...
Dorothy Johnson (actress) (1936–2022), American model and actress Dorothy M. Johnson (1905–1984), American author of Western fiction Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970), American poet and educator
Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known for appearing in Slander House (1930), The Ape (1940) and Lady Gangster (1942).