Tag: Katherine G. Johnson

  • U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and author Margot Lee Shetterly are among the dignitaries honoring Katherine Johnson, former NASA employee and central character of the book and movie Hidden Figures, at 1 p.m. Sept. 22 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

  • Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil Vanity Fair September 2016 Charles Bolden, Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Katherine Johnson, photographed at Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a…

  • NASA Facility Dedicated to Mathematician Katherine Johnson Space.com 2016-05-05 Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she worked as a “computer” and mathematician from 1953 to 1986. Langley dedicated a computing facility to Johnson in a ceremony today (May 5). Credit: NASA NASA honored 97-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson…

  • The Black Female Mathematicians Who Sent Astronauts to Space Mental Floss 2015-11-24 A. K. Whitney Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. (Source NASA) Today, November 24, President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 17 men and women. Among them is 97-year-old retired African-American…

  • NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom NBC News 2015-11-25 Katherine G. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission to space. The 97-year-old was one of 17 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday.

  • President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 2015-11-16 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially…

  • Katherine Johnson: National Visionary National Visionary Leadership Project 2005 Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic early era of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon BIOGRAPHY Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a pioneer of the…