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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 ...
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]
An analysis of the mathematics curriculum in the negro public high schools in Louisiana [182] 1967 (M) Calvin Elijah King Ohio State University: A comparative study of the effectiveness of teaching a course in remedial mathematics to college students by television and by the conventional method [183] 1967 (M) Irvin Elmer Vance University of ...
Katherine Johnson's great-granddaughter, Nakia Boykin, opens up about the late NASA mathematician's legacy for Women's History Month.
By the 1950s, a team was performing mathematical calculations at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, including Annie Easley, Katherine Johnson and Kathryn Peddrew. [83] At the National Bureau of Standards, Margaret R. Fox was hired to work as part of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory in 1951. [42]
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 ...
This is a list of women who have made noteworthy contributions to or achievements in mathematics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These include mathematical research, mathematics education , [ 1 ] : xii the history and philosophy of mathematics, public outreach, and mathematics contests .
At West Virginia his students included Katherine Johnson who later worked on the space program for NASA. [1] Claytor applied for a National Research Council Fellowship to work at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), which at the time was housed in Princeton University, but was rejected on racial grounds. [6]