Trailblazing NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. Johnson was a key member of a group of African-American women whose vital mathematical work helped lay the ...

lewisburg, w.va. — The Greenbrier Historical Society (GHS) continues its commitment to honoring the legacy of Katherine Johnson, the pioneering African American mathematician whose contributions ...

Johnson has left an amazing legacy: as a mathematician, she helped NASA to put humans into space. But as an African-American woman, her legacy is perhaps even greater. She has given us a role model, ...

Katherine Johnson: Nasa mathematician who was crucial to the space race She was latterly recognised as a trailblazer for women and African Americans in the field of spaceflight ...

Johnson left home to attend an African-American high school associated with West Virginia State College (now University), and completed her secondary school course work at the age of 13.

Hidden Figures celebrates the critical contributions of NASA’s unsung African American heroines of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, including Mary W. Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan.

Katherine Johnson, one of the ‘Hidden Figures,’ was a mathematician and Black public school teacher before she was hired by NASA in 1953. [Courtesy: NASA] The ‘Hidden Figures’ ...

A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of African American NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.