American mathematician Dorothy Vaughan was born #OTD in 1910.
She was the first respected Black female manager at NASA, thus creating a long-lasting legacy for diversity in mathematics & science for West Area Computers. As one of the first female coders in the field who knew how to code FORTRAN, she was able to instruct other Black women on the coding language & paved a wave of female programmers to integrate their work into NASA’s systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan
