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  2. Katherine Johnson - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Hidden Figures (book) - Wikipedia

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    There were so many people required to make this happen. It would be great for people to understand that there were so many more people. Even though Katherine Johnson, in this role, was a hero, there were so many others that were required to do other kinds of tests and checks to make [Glenn's] mission come to fruition.

  4. African-American women in computer science - Wikipedia

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    African-American women were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, who had careers of decades at NASA. [1] Among Johnson's projects was calculating the flight path for the United States' first mission into space in ...

  5. Katherine Johnson's great-granddaughter, Nakia Boykin, opens up about the late NASA mathematician's legacy for Women's History Month.

  6. West Area Computers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

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    Katherine Johnson: 1918–2020: 101: American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee [106] Robert L. Kahn: 1918–2019: 100: American social psychologist [107] Alex Karczmar: 1917–2017: 100: American neuroscientist [108] Ke Jun: 1917–2017: 100: Chinese metallurgist [109] Frances Oldham Kelsey: 1914–2015: 101: Canadian-American ...

  8. AP Human Geography - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, APHug, AP Human, HuGS, AP HuGo, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [1]

  9. William Schieffelin Claytor - Wikipedia

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    In 1947 he joined the faculty at Howard, where David Blackwell was then chair of the department of mathematics. [8] Claytor taught at Howard until his retirement in 1965, serving as chair himself along the way. [7] On August 5, 1947, Claytor married the psychologist Mae Belle Pullins, who also shared his love of mathematics. They had one daughter.