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Dorothy Vaughan

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With my team of female mathematicians, we calculated by hand the trajectories of American rockets. In 1961, NASA received the IBM supercomputer, designed to replace us, all of us were going to be fired. But I trained my entire team in its language, the FORTRAN, and we became better programmers than the IBM experts. I received the right to participate in briefings allowed only to old and white men.

I was a woman, young and black. Like all my colleagues. After serving America from Roosevelt to Nixon, I applied for the position of Director of NASA's Research Center. Which has been rejected.

I am Dorothy Vaughan.

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101010, dix scientifiques, grandioses, opprimés, martyrs, spoliés de leurs découvertes. De grands esprits ayant subi l’injustice, l’oppression morale ou religieuse.

Pour les privilégiés, l'égalité sonne comme une oppression.
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