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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Mathematician Katherine Johnson, who in 2015 was named a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, joined the West Area Computing group in 1953. She was subsequently reassigned to Langley's Flight Research Division, where she performed notable work including providing the trajectory analysis for astronaut John Glenn 's MA-6 Project Mercury ...
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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
In 1939, Katherine married James “Jimmie” Goble, and in the same year was also invited to integrate West Virginia University as one of three black students [1][2]. She studied math there, but soon decided not to finish her degree and instead start a family.