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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 ...
Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (1878–1954), educator and political activist; Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician; Katie Johnson (secretary) (born 1981), American assistant to President Obama; Kathryn Johnson, American engineer, co-founder of Young Engineers / Future Leaders
Katherine Johnson's great-granddaughter, Nakia Boykin, opens up about the late NASA mathematician's legacy for Women's History Month.
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 ...
On the occasion of President Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, the National Constitution Center looks at 10 interesting facts about one of the most colorful and controversial figures in American history.
Katharine Johnson Jackson (better known as Kate J. Jackson; April 7, 1841 – February 24, 1921) was an American physician affiliated with the water cure movement at the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, Livingston County, New York. Earlier in her life, she studied stenography, and became one of the first women to adopt that profession.
Katherine Jackson Ethan Miller/Getty Images Michael Jackson‘s mother Katherine Jackson has fired back at her grandson Bigi, amid their ongoing legal battle. Bigi, 22, (who is Jackson’s ...