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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 ...
Katherine Johnson's great-granddaughter, Nakia Boykin, opens up about the late NASA mathematician's legacy for Women's History Month.
One of them, Katherine Johnson, calculated rocket trajectories for the Mercury and Apollo missions. [9] Johnson successfully "took matters into her own hands" [9] by being assertive with her supervisor. When her mathematical abilities were recognized, Johnson was allowed into what had previously been all-male meetings at NASA. [9] [10]
Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.Johnson became a household name thanks to the ...
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 ...
Mr. and Mrs. David Collins Johnson of New York and Watch Hill, Rhode Island announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine Ann, of New York, to George H. Shepherd, also of New York.
Johnson grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and moved with her parents to Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1999 before entering Wellesley College.She is the oldest of three children of Dr. Bruce E. Johnson, head of thoracic oncology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and Georgia M. Johnson, a management consultant and an elected Town Meeting member in Brookline.
“The Office” alum has a 6-year-old daughter, Katherine and and a 3-year-old son, Spencer and a daughter named Anne who was born in February 2024, Kaling shared on Instagram, along with photos ...