Dorothy Vaughan

Born: Sep, 20, 1910. Manager at West Wing NACA at Langley. Bachelors of Mathematics @ Wilberforce Uni 1929. Account by Frankie Childs

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

I taught my friends IBM 790 DPS so we would be ahead of the game when they began to need programmers for it we were qualified!

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

oh ya I married my bae 💕 howard in 1932 and had 4 kids, only one went to work for NASA so somethin went wrong somewhere

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

PRO TIP: WAIT TIL UR KIDS ARE GROWN BEFORE YOU GO WORK FOR THE GOV!!! THEY HAVE CRAZY HOURS!!!!!

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

the satellite? Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test = SCOUT. 118 launches, 395 lbs. baby was packin

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

tfw ur so good at math that ur satellite has a 96% success rate

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

Did u know I was in charge of West Computing for like 10 yrs? Then when NACA -> NASA I learne FORTRAN programming

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

I trash a lot of ya'll but fr it was great to be trusted w my insight and knowledge, esp w challenging assugnments

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

Did you know I did math, working 24/hr shifts ? Being a human computer wasnt the best :///

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

Can you imagine teaching and living in a placed, literally, called F a r m v i l l e? Ya, no wonder I went to Langley, teaching wasn't best

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

Must've been great to be white or before segregation. Jim Crow laws made me segregated from white female mathematicians

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

I died Nov 10, 2008 and I was 98 years old and some of ya'll died partyin too hard, moderation like the fuel used to carry things to space

[Ptolemius @prettyptolemy]

How I think solar system works vs how my wife think solar system works

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

Some of ya'll need Jesus, dw tho u can come w me to St. Paul AME Church

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

@prettyptolemy @CarlSagan445 @realDonaldTrump #ScientistsKnowBest

[Ptolemius @prettyptolemy]

@realDonaldTrump yo my hands are bigger

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

ya'll did some neat stuff but i studied during a world war where they didnt want a woman - let alone a black one

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

as the head of the NACA’s segregated Computing Unit from 1949 until 1958, Im a respected mathematician &NASA's first AfricanAmerican manager

[George Hale yes @GeorgeH63699110]

Dancing with the stars #puns

[Dorothy Vaughan @DorothyVMaths]

#HighkeyBetterThanYou https://t.co/8aN2DNjGD3

[Michio Kaku @MichioKaku70]

What you were building for the science fair vs. what I made for mine #prodigy