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Dorothy Vaughan

NASA mathematician and the agency's first African-American supervisor; a self-taught FORTRAN programmer who led the transition of the West Area Computers into electronic computing.

Mathematician. NASA mathematician and the agency's first African-American supervisor; a self-taught FORTRAN programmer who led the transition of the West Area Computers into electronic computing.

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    NASA mathematician and the agency's first African-American supervisor; a self-taught FORTRAN programmer who led the transition of the West Area Computers into electronic computing.