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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 ...
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.
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 ...
She did not marry Johnson until 1959. (In 1959, the then-Katherine Goble remarried, to James A. Johnson, who had been a Second Lieutenant in the Army and was a veteran of the Korean War.[25]) Not sure how other Wikipedia articles handle this but Katherine Johnson needs some modification. Peter K Burian 22:58, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Goble was her married name while she was married to James Goble; that seems to be where the initial G comes from in a few sources. But for most of her adult life she was married to James Johnson. The Katherine Johnson page mentions briefly that she might be called Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson = Coleman (maiden name) Goble (first married name ...
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Katharine McMahon Johnson (1855–1924), American literary figure and wife of Robert Underwood Johnson; Katie Johnson (English actress) (1878–1957) Kate Edelman Johnson (born in 1893 ), American film and television producer and philanthropist; Kathie Lee Johnson (born 1953), American singer and television personality