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Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
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The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan , and Mary Jackson , three mathematicians [ 4 ] who worked as computers (then a ...
American Mathematical Society. [209] Farmer, Vernon L; Shepherd-Wynn, Evelyn (2012). Voices of historical and contemporary Black American pioneers. [210] Harmon, Marylen; Guertler, Sherry (1994). Visions of a dream: history makers: contributions of Africans and African Americans in science and mathematics. M.E. Harmon. [211] Houston, Johnny L ...
[16] [2] Katherine Johnson also refused to use segregated restrooms since they were on the opposite side of the campus, [16] so she used an unmarked restroom. [2] After discovering that the males on her team were attending meetings to share important information about their current tasks, Katherine Johnson also began attending these meetings ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
African-American women were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, who had careers of decades at NASA. [1] Among Johnson's projects was calculating the flight path for the United States' first mission into space in ...
1924: Florence Bascom became the first woman elected to the Council of the Geological Society of America. [11] 1925: Florence Sabin became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [14] 1928: Alice Evans became the first woman elected president of the Society of American Bacteriologists. [15]