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Dorothy Vaughan

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Dorothy Vaughan

Also known as Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan

mathématicienne afro-américaine

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Precious Thoughts
Convert and Other Short Stories
Europe and the Turk

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1924-03-27
Active to: 1990-04-03

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Cited by: 32

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Conceptual designPrinted circuit board

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Dorothy Vaughan née Dorothy Jean Johnson (20 septembre 1910 - 10 novembre 2008) est une mathématicienne et informaticienne américaine qui a travaillé pour le National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), puis à la National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) qui a contribué aux premières décennies du programme spatial américain et qui fut la première directrice de division afro-américaine du NACA puis de la NASA.

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An Asymmetric B-Factory Based on PEP: Conceptual Design Report1991 · 32 cit
Evolution of Glass Finish Technology in the Past Decade1987 · 0 cit
Cooking With Confidence : the ABC of Electrical Cookery1939 · 0 cit

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Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,371x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,597x
Brain–computer interfaces for communication and control
· 2002 · cited 6,291x
<i>Review</i> : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2
· 2001 · cited 5,978x

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Born: Dorothy Jean Johnson , ( 1910-09-20 ) September 20, 1910, Kansas City, Missouri , U.S.
Died: November 10, 2008 (2008-11-10) (aged 98), Hampton, Virginia , U.S.
Education: Wilberforce University ( BA )
Spouse: Howard Vaughan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 ; died 1955 )
Institutions: NACA , Langley Research Center

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Number of children: 6

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date of death: 2008-11-10
date of birth: 1910-09-20
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