NASA Math and Space Pioneer Katherine Johnson Dies At 101
Katherine Johnson, often called the “human computer” by her fellow NASA mathematicians, passed away this week at the age of 101. Her work went largely unnoticed for most of her life until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” that told the stories of Johnson and two other black women who worked at NASA.
Johnson worked in NASA’s “computer pool,”…
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