Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Here's a timeline of Dorothy Vaughan's life:

• 1910 - Born on September 20 in Kansas City, Missouri
• 1929 - Attended Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio on a full scholarship and earned a degree in mathematics
• 1930 - Worked as a mathematics teacher at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia
• 1932 - Married Howard S. Vaughan Jr. (they would raise six children together)
• 1943 - Started work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and was assigned to the West Area Computer Unit of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
• 1949 - Became head of the West Area Computer Unit and was NACA/NASA's first African-American manager
• 1961 - After teaching herself the computer programming language, FORTRAN, joined the new Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at NASA
• 1971 - Retired from NASA
• 2008 - Died at age 98
• 2016 - Featured in the book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and movie of the same name (based on the book) directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder

"Her legacy lives on in the successful careers of notable West Computing alumni, including Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Eunice Smith and Kathryn Peddrew, and the achievements of second-generation mathematicians and engineers such as Dr. Christine Darden." Margot Lee Shetterly

If you have time, you should read more about this inspiring woman on her Wikipedia entry.