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elictriclightorchestra · 10 months

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the three BLACK WOMEN (mary jackson, katherine g. johnson, and dorothy vaughan) that changed astronomy and history.

mary jackson, an accomplished engineer, broke down barriers as the first african american woman to work as an engineer at NASA. her expertise and determination paved the way for future generations of women in the field.

katherine johnson, a brilliant mathematician, calculated the trajectory for john glenn's historic 1962 spaceflight, making her an invaluable asset to NASA's space task group. her calculations were pivotal in ensuring a successful mission

dorothy vaughan was a talented mathematician and the first african-american supervisor at NASA. she was instrumental in introducing computer programming skills to her colleagues, which played a significant role in advancing the space program.

through their dedication and groundbreaking achievements, mary jackson, katherine johnson, and dorothy vaughan left an indelible mark on history, proving that talent knows no boundaries, and that anyone, regardless of their background, can reach for the stars. their triumphs were celebrated in the 2016 film hidden figures, a personal favorite of mine.

i urge you all to read up on these magnificent women and their astronomical (no pun intended) impact on the world. celebrate and encourage black women in STEM. they are magical

#hidden figures #engineering #computer science #math #stem #mary jackson #katherine johnson #dorothy vaughan #films #movies #film #black women in STEM

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lesbicosmos · 1 year

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i just finished hidden figures after wanting to watch it for months and OH MY GOD IM IN AWE I THINK THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE MOVIE

#i was just sat there for half the movie like :o #women!!#i love learning about historical women #especially women of colour aswell #and especially women in space science!!#im not gonna shut up abt this movie for a good few days at least #so uh apologies #but AAAAA #hidden figures movie #katherine johnson #dorothy vaughan #mary jackson #women in stem #womens history month

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justsimplythebest · 1 year

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Three remarkable women that deserves way more attention, that indeed has been “Hidden figures”. Mathematical geniuses who’s true heroes! Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan this post is in honor for you, and a huge thank you for what you all have done for the World.

#black lives always matter #katherine johnson #mary jackson #dorothy vaughan #true heroes #mathematical geniuses #nasa #aerospace

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thegayfangrrl · 1 year

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#dorothy vaughan #evelyn couch #hidden figures #fried green tomatoes #octavia spencer #kathy bates #milfmadnesspoll

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teachersource · 2 years

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Dorothy Vaughan was born on September 20, 1910. 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. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of Fortran. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.

#dorothy vaughan #hidden figures #naca #nasa #human computers #women in science #women in history #science #science birthdays #science history #on this day #on this day in science history

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joanabrt · 2 years

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rjdavies · 1 year

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Celebrating Black History Month: Dorothy Vaughan

On a mission … celebrating Black History Month with amazing and inspirational Black Women for the rest of the month and continuing into March to celebrate not only inspirational Black Women but International Woman’s Day.

Born September 20, 1910 Kansas City, Missouri, died November 10, 2008.

Dorothy Vaughan had went to Wilberforce University in Ohio on a full scholarship, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and French in 1929.

She performed complex computations and analyzed data for aerospace engineers, work that was essential the the success of the early US Space program.

Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician and NASA’s first Black Manager, where she made several contributions to NASA’s orgranization. She was also and expert in FORTRAN, the computer language used in the early years of electronic computer programming.

In her 28 year careeer, she prepared for the introduction of computers in the early 60′s teaching herself and her staff the programming language of Fortran. Dorothy later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.

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dontdenymeshakespeare · 1 year

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Hidden Figures

In honour of Black History Month, I'm starting to write book reviews about some of the nonfiction I'm reading

Note: As part of Black History Month, I’m trying something new: writing a book review on a new nonfiction fave. As many book reviews as I’ve written and posted, as many nonfiction books as I read, it’s not a genre I feel particularly comfortable with writing reviews for, but I thought I’d give it a whirl since I’m thinking about including more nonfiction content on my blogs other than the…

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genevieveetguy · 2 years

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Must I remind you that you are the fugitive from justice and not I. I'm a prominent citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure young workman, wanted for the committing of an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?

Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock (1942)

#Alfred Hitchcock #Peter Viertel #Joan Harrison #Dorothy Parker #Priscilla Lane #Robert Cummings #Otto Kruger #Alan Baxter #Clem Bevans #Norman Lloyd #Alma Kruger #Vaughan Glaser #Dorothy Peterson #Joseph A. Valentine #Frank Skinner #Otto Ludwig #1942

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spookyfoxdreamer · 8 months

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#49 1/2 years old Dorothy Vaughan on Monday July 1st 1940 ad dragon Year

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soracities · 8 months

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look i WILL be insufferable about this if i have to but ada lovelace, katherine goble johnson, margaret hamilton, dorothy vaughan, mary jackson, and marie curie did not do ALL that for women to be collectively denigrated back to ~girl math~

#p #tbd

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code-es · 1 year

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The women who laid the foundation of tech

EDIT: I noticed that this post ended up being reblogged by terfs. If you're transphobic this post is not for you to reblog. I want to celebrate everyone who is not a cis man in this industry, including trans women and nonbinary people in tech, and it was my mistake to only include cis women in this post when there are so many trans women and nonbinary people who have done great things in tech as well. Trans women are women and just as important.

Here you can read about trans ppl in tech, and please do:

https://www.thecodingspace.com/blog/2022-03-01-six-trans-programmers-who-shattered-the-lavender-ceiling/

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/transgender-tech-visibility-obstacles-remain/story?id=76374628

The morning of women's day i attended a super inspiring seminar about being a woman in tech at a large tech company in my city, and now I'm inspired to share what I learned with all of you!

I didn't have time to finish this post on women's day, but it's not too late to post now: every day is a day to celebrate women!

Women actually laid the foundation for a lot of the tech industry.

For example, the first computer, ENIAC, was programmed completely by women! While men were the behind the scenes engineers, it was women who did all the actual programming of ENIAC.

The women who made up the team responsible for programming it were called Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances V. Spence and Ruth Teitelbaum.

I think one woman who is finally getting her overdue recognition is Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician (also often referred to as the first programmer) who created the first algorithm in 1842, which wasn't recognized until 1953! However, since none of her machines were ever completed it was never tested in practice during her time.

She has since been celebrated by giants such as google, and she has given name to a programming language (Ada). She was also the first person to write about what is today known as AI. Back when she was practicing, computers were simply thought of as calculators. But she had an idea that if computers can understand numbers, then that can be translated to letters, and in turn that can lead to computers being able to handle words, and eventually even write, draw and create music.

Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress in the 40's, but she was also an inventor who laid ground for what we use today for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS services.

During WW2 she wanted to contribute positviely to the military efforts against the Nazis, and she tried to figure out how to radio control torpedoes. In 1942 she patented her technology "Secret Communications System", also known as frequency hopping, which laid the foundation for the technology we use today for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. It wasn't until 1962 that it was first used for its intended purpose, during the cuban missile crisis.

Grace Hopper invented the first compiler, called A-0, in 1955, and was also part of the Univac team, which was the company also responsible for building ENIAC. She also initiated work on the COBOL programming language.

She was also the one to coin the term "bug" in 1947. Computers back then had lights to visualize their working process (which was also a womans idea to implement btw) and bugs would be attracted to the lights, but usually that was no issue - until a bug made its way into a tube which caused the computer to stop working. Hopper taped the bug to a piece of paper and logged what caused the crash - a bug.

Dorothy Vaughan (left), alongside colleagues such as Katherine Johnson (middle) and Mary Jackson (right), was a mathematician at NASA (called NACA when she started) who worked on the orbit for the first ever manned spaceflight and later also on Apollo 11 that would take humanity to the moon!

When Vaughan started at what was then called NACA, segregation was still prevalent in the US and she was not allowed in the same areas in the office as her white colleagues. Another department was formed for the black staff, and when the director of said department unexpectedly died, she was appointed as the new director and thus became the first ever black woman at that position at NACA/NASA. In 1958 when NACA becomes NASA segregation is forbidden, and that is when Vaughan and her colleagues Johnson and Jackson started working on programming the orbit and later also Apollo 11.

Continuing on the same track of NASA and space, Margaret Hamilton was the Apollo project's first actual programmer. Hamilton became the director of software engineering at NASA in 1965, and she was also the person to first coin the term !

In the image above, she stands next to all the handwritten code that was used to send humanity to the moon. During the early stages of the project when she would speak of "sofware engineering", software development was not taken as seriously as other forms of engineering, and it wasn't regarded as a science, either. She wanted to legitimize software development as an engineering discipline, and overtime the term "software engineering" gained the same respect as any other technical discipline.

And lastly, if you're a woman in STEM, I want to highlight and celebrate you! Being a woman in a male dominated industry is not easy, we often suffer from sterotype threat and are not seen as our own individuals, but rather "the woman" in a room full of men. But just as these women, I'm sure you will achieve greatness!!

Here are some additional resources if you'd like to learn more:

https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-so-it-was-paid-less-and-undervalued

https://digitalfuturesociety.com/programming-when-did-womens-work-become-a-mans-world/

And this was mainly my source for this post, but it's unfortunately only available in Swedish:

Thank you for reading ✨

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sub-at-omicsteminist · 2 years

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•🌜Women in stem🌛•

✨ Ancient history ✨

Hypatia

Hatshepsut

Tapputi-Belatekallim

Theano

Aglaonice

Fang

Mary the Jewess

Pandrosion

Cleopatra the alchemist

✨The Middle Ages✨

Al- ‘Ijliyyah

Dobrodeia of Kiev

Trota of Salerno

Adelle of the Saracens

Hildegard of Bingen

Herrad of Landsberg

Zulema L'Astròloga

Adelmota of Carrara

Keng Hsien-Seng

✨16th Century✨

Isabella Cortese

Loredana Marcello

Sophia Brahe

Caterina Vitale

✨17th Century✨

Louise Boursier

Martine Bertereau

Maria Cunitz

Marie Meurdrac

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Marguerite de la Sablière

Jeanne Dumée

Elisabeth Hevelius

Maria Clara Eimmart

Maria Sibylla Merian

✨18th Century✨

Eleanor Glanville

Maria Margaretha Kirch

Catherine Jérémie

Laura Bassi

Emilie du Châtelet

Eva Ekeblad

Cristina Roccati

Jane Colden

Anna Morandi Manzolini

Wang Zhenyi

Caroline Herschel

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville

Elizabeth Fulhame

✨Early 19th Century✨

Sophie Germain

Anna Sundström

Sabina Baldoncelli

Lady Hester Stanhope

Mary Anning

Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti

Marie-Anne Libert

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

Orra White Hitchcock

✨Late 19th Century✨

Henrietta Vansittart

✨Early 20th Century✨

Hertha Ayrton

Katherine Parsons

Emmy Noether

Lise Meitner

Marjorie Lee Browne

Dorothy Vaughan

✨Late 20th Century✨

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Katherine Johnson

Mae Jemison

Valentina Tereshkova

Valerie Thomas

Sally Ride

Lynn Conway

✨21st Century✨

Maryam Mirzakhani

Carolyn Bertozzi

Andrea M. Ghez

Jennifer Doudna

Shirley Ann Jackson

Donna Strickland

Frances Arnold

Karen Uhlenbeck

Jennifer Doudna

Marcia McNutt

Maureen Raymo

#science #stem #physics #maths #mathematics #chemistry #biology #astrophysics #astronomy #astronaut #education #women in stem #womens history #women #Steminist #history #stemblr

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thegayfangrrl · 1 year

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#dorothy vaughan #queen clarisse renaldi #hidden figures #the princess diaries #octavia spencer #julie andrews #milfmadnesspoll

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historia-vitae-magistras · 2 months

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Considering his experiences and history with the Space Race and NASA, do you ever see Alfred giving lectures on aerospace engineering, mathematics, physics, or any NASA-related STEM field at any universities/colleges?

Not so much teaching or running courses because that's a pretty specific thing that requires a lot of time and forethought. But I do think he'll randomly hijack physics experiments and make them much cooler if he just happens across them in a park or a campus. And he often comes across figures who will be exceptionally important, like Creola Katherine Johnson or Dorothy Vaughan. And I think sometimes he gets a bit existential and ends up on the Air and Space when he needs a boost that coke or coffee isn't giving him and will give an impromptu lecture on the history. He's probably been offered a job on the spot and gotten all misty-eyed before he ducks back into his usual routine. People are, after all, the origin, point and purpose of his interests.

#the ask box || probis pateo #alfred and the stars || the first golden retriever in space #alfred || o beautiful for spacious skies

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cozyaliensuperstar7 · 2 months

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Art by @nettiebeatrice

Women's History Month

Mary McLeod Bethune was an African American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. She founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the org's flagship journal, and led a myriad of African American women's organizations.

Katherine Johnson was an African American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent US crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist"

Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

On Sept. 12, 1992, Mae Jemison boarded the space shuttle "Endeavor" and with six other astronauts, orbited the earth. Her trip to the stars landed Jemison in the history books as the first Black woman in space.

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who explored pain, adversity, resilience, and cultural and political conflict through her paintings. Kahlo is known for her uncompromising, vivid self-portraits of all she endured during her lifetime.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago.

#support black artists #art #women's history month

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