ObituaryNick Vaughan
Submitted on Friday, September 13, 2013
Nick Hampton Vaughan (’47, ’48 M.S.), 90, Professor Emeritus of mathematics, died
May 18 in Sugar Land. As a student at North Texas, where he earned bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in math, he was an officer in the Mathematics Club, played tennis
and was a teaching fellow. He also studied at Purdue and later earned a doctorate
at Louisiana State University.He joined the North Texas faculty in 1958 and was named
a Professor Emeritus in 2002. He served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army in the
Pacific during World War II. In the 1950s, he worked as a mathematician at the U.S.
Naval Ordnance Plant in Indianapolis studying aircraft fire control systems, as a
research associate in aircraft vulnerability studies at Purdue’s Statistical Lab,
and as a senior aerophysics engineer in weapons systems evaluation at Convair in Fort
Worth.