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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 ...
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 ...
A Hidden Figures picture book was released in January 2018. The book was co-written by Margot Lee Shetterly for children from four to eight years of age. [ 19 ]
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Her NASA papers list Katherine G. Johnson as the author. StarryGrandma 02:01, 2 March 2017 (UTC) Good point StarryGrandma ; but she used Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson in her scientific papers. And the link NASA provides on that page leads to a Bio that calls her Katherine Johnson National Visionary
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"In 1962, mathematician Katherine Goble Johnson works" ... "Johnson apologizes to Katherine and they ultimately get married." -Hidden Figures Plot. As the story opens, the protagonist's name is actually Katherine (née Coleman) Goble. It isn't until much later in the story (and the real history) that she marries Jim Johnson and takes his surname.
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is a 2018 picture book by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, illustrated by Laura Freeman. The picture book is adapted from Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race ...