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Medal - Dorothy Vaughan
| Location | United States |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Edge | Plain Dorothy J. 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. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a figural scene in high relief depicting Dorothy J. Vaughan in a teaching pose before a mainframe computer, her right arm extended toward two seated colleagues who take notes. Radiating sun rays in the upper field symbolize enlightenment, with the inscribed quotation I CHANGED WHAT I COULD, AND WHAT I COULDN'T, I ENDURED. occupying the central field. Along the lower exergue, three bullet-pointed inscriptions reference her key achievements, and engravers' initials ESD and JPM appear at the lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | I CHANGED WHAT I COULD, AND WHAT I COULDN'T, I ENDURED. FORTRAN EXPERT SCOUT LAUNCH PROGRAM SUPERVISOR, WEST AREA COMPUTERS ESD JPM |
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