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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]
Katherine "Kathy" Johnson Clarke [1] [2] (born Katherine Ann Johnson; September 13, 1959 [3]) is an American sports commentator and former artistic gymnast.Johnson was one of the first American gymnasts to win a major international medal, known for her longevity and tenacity in the sport.
Katherine Johnson's great-granddaughter, Nakia Boykin, opens up about the late NASA mathematician's legacy for Women's History Month.
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 ...
Mr. and Mrs. David Collins Johnson of New York and Watch Hill, Rhode Island announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine Ann, of New York, to George H. Shepherd, also of New York.
Indeed, there was no stopping Johnson on his long climb from El Cajon, California, to the top of NASCAR. In 2001, he drummed up the confidence to approach Jeff Gordon in a driver meeting and ask ...
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