Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of ... She always said she was too busy with her work to be concerned about being treated unequally.

A "Hidden Figures" mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall ...

NASA honored Hidden Figure, Katherine G. Johnson (1918-2020), a pioneering mathematician whose groundbreaking work contributed to America's space exploration. Her remarkable achievements earned her ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer’ after she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her.

Two weeks into the work she moved over ... Freedom and on May 5, 2016, NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research ...

Because any mistake in our work - even a tiny mistake - could ... culture with a major film made about her. Katherine Johnson was working at NASA during the ‘space race’.

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Now she hopes her internship will lead to a fellowship at Nasa ... women to work on mathematical calculations. The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures tells the stories of Katherine Johnson ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and ... where she made quick work of the school's math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor ...