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(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 26, 1918, legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia. Johnson’s brilliance was clear from a young age. She was already attending high ...

“You read about stuff like this,” said Moore, who lives in Greensboro, of the attention surrounding her mother with the release of the movie. “I knew my mother worked at NASA. Growing up we knew she ...

Katherine Johnson, now a retired NASA research mathematician, was no stranger to geometry. She was the one who would calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. This was America's ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering ...

In DeSoto this week, students from one school are being immersed in the history of the woman who bears the name of their school and was immortalized in the movie "Hidden Figures." The classwork for ...

Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was the inspiration for film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. She was part of the team who helped launch the first American orbit around the Earth, ...