COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Dorothy Vaughan

1910 - 2008

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Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center. She later was promoted officially to the position of supervisor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Vaughan has received more than 4,170,950 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Dorothy Vaughan is the 20th most popular computer scientist, the 1,374th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,441st in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Dorothy Vaughan ranks 20 out of 245. Before her are Marvin Minsky, Ivan Sutherland, George Dantzig, Ray Kurzweil, John Backus, and Ken Thompson. After her are Vint Cerf, Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Naur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Dorothy Vaughan ranks 57. Before her are Kim Il, Said bin Taimur, Farid al-Atrash, Francisco Varallo, Galina Ulanova, and Jean-Louis Barrault. After her are August Landmesser, Imi Lichtenfeld, Tancredo Neves, Lobsang Rampa, Pavel Batitsky, and John Sturges. Among people deceased in 2008, Dorothy Vaughan ranks 51. Before her are Dražan Jerković, Robert Rauschenberg, Janez Drnovšek, Phil Hill, Dino Risi, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. After her are Horst Tappert, Tassos Papadopoulos, Joshua Lederberg, Rajko Mitić, Sufi Abu Taleb, and Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Vaughan ranks 1,374 out of 20,380. Before her are Ken Thompson (1943), George Davis Snell (1903), Ludacris (1977), Rodney King (1965), Ron Jeremy (1953), and Vincente Minnelli (1903). After her are Leland H. Hartwell (1939), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Kelly Lynch (1959), Max Wright (1943), Bob Kane (1915), and Scott Wilson (1942).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Dorothy Vaughan ranks 13. Before her are Marvin Minsky (1927), Ivan Sutherland (1938), George Dantzig (1914), Ray Kurzweil (1948), John Backus (1924), and Ken Thompson (1943). After her are Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Ward Cunningham (1949), and Barbara Liskov (1939).

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