Dorothy Vaughan vs Paul Erdős
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Compare the life timelines of Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) and Paul Erdős (1913–1996) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 83 years, from 1913 to 1996.
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Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008)
- — Born in Kansas City, Missouri Verified
- — Graduated from Wilberforce University Verified
- — Taught mathematics at Robert Russa Moton High School Verified
- — Married Howard Vaughan Verified
- — Began work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory Verified
- — Appointed head of West Area Computing Verified
- — Joined the Analysis and Computation Division after NACA became NASA Verified
- — Learned FORTRAN and taught it to her colleagues Verified
- — Retired from NASA Verified
- — Died in Hampton, Virginia Verified
Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
- — Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary Verified
- — Entered Pázmány Péter University in Budapest Verified
- — Moved to Manchester, England, for a postdoctoral fellowship Verified
- — Received doctorate in mathematics from the University of Budapest Verified
- — Moved to the United States and took a fellowship at Princeton Verified
- — Contributed an elementary proof of the prime number theorem Verified
- — Awarded the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society Verified
- — Awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics Verified
- — Died in Warsaw, Poland, while attending a mathematics conference Verified