“It is with deep sadness that I learned of the passing of Katherine Johnson, a truly brilliant mathematician and pioneer. “There were no textbooks, so we had to write them,” Johnson said. Johnson’s trajectory calculations were vital to the US space missions. In September 1960 mathematician Katherine Johnson published NASA’s first scientific paper to name a woman as author.

Today, we celebrate her 101 years of life and honor her legacy of excellence that broke down racial and social barriers,” tweeted NASA after news of Johnson’s passing. “We’re saddened by the passing of celebrated #HiddenFigures mathematician Katherine Johnson. Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on November 8, 2019, after House Science Committee Chairwoman Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s passed legislation to honor her. Johnson graduated from West Virginia State University and West Virginia University. Vaughan and Jackson were from Hampton, Va. They were Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, who passed in 2008, and Mary Jackson who passed in 2005. The lives of three brilliant African American women were featured in the book and subsequent film. and, after Neil Johnson worked in a world where errors were fatal. With little more than a pencil and a slide rule Johnson calculated the exact trajectories for Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969. Henson in the 2017 film “Hidden Figures.” The book based on the film by the same name was written by Margot Lee Shetterly. land men on the moon during the space race in the 1960s and was portrayed by actress Taraji P. Johnson played a pivotal role in helping the U.S.

space program, passed away at 101 years old on the morning of February 24 in Newport News, Va. Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA physicist and mathematician whose work played a key role in the early successes of the U.S.

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