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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.
Dorothy Marie Johnson was born in McGregor, Iowa, the only daughter of Lester Eugene Johnson and Mary Louisa Barlow. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Montana. [2] While she was a student at Whitefish High School, she began to write professionally, working as a newspaper stringer for The Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana. [3]
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 .
In 1949, Dorothy Vaughan was put in charge of supervising the West Computers. She was the first African American manager at NASA. She was the first African American manager at NASA. Vaughan was a mathematician who worked at Langley from 1943 through her retirement in 1971.
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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
On December 1, 2016, Johnson received the Langley West Computing Unit NASA Group Achievement Award at a reception at the Virginia Air and Space Center. Other awardees included her colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. [80] 2017, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Medal of Honor [81] 2017 Honorary Doctorate from Spelman College [82]