Dorothy Vaughan vs Shiing-Shen Chern
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Compare the life timelines of Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) and Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 93 years, from 1911 to 2004.
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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
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911–2004)
- — Born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China Verified
- — Master's degree from Tsinghua University Verified
- — Doctorate from the University of Hamburg Verified
- — Intrinsic proof of the Gauss–Bonnet theorem Verified
- — Introduced Chern classes Verified
- — Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Verified
- — Founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Verified
- — Awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics Verified
- — Died in Tianjin, China Verified