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 ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

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

NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating her 100th birthday on August 26 ...

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.

You see that light, moving across the sky? It doesn’t look like much now, does it? But actually, up there, that’s a spacecraft. And the man inside it – well, he’s a gentleman I work with.

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.

Johnson has since been the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and in 2016 NASA named a building, the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility, after her. That same year ...