Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil

NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a female African-American in the 1960s, shattered stereotypes in the process. (More…)

Another article: She helped send Apollo to the moon. Now she’s receiving the same medal the astronauts accepted 51 years ago. (More…)

You can see an excellent biopic of her life story on the film/DVD: ‘Hidden Figures’.

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