Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose trailblazing contributions to the space agency during the Space Race got the silver screen treatment in the film Hidden Figures, has died, NASA ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...

Now, NASA has honored Katherine Johnson, one of the real women depicted in the movie, by renaming an entire facility after her. HuffPost reports that on Friday, February 22nd, NASA officially ...

Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson — whose pioneering work partially inspired Hidden Figures — appeared at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, where she was hailed as “a true NASA and ...

Henson is paying her respects to Katherine Johnson, the late NASA mathematician the actress was “honored” to play on-screen in 2016’s Hidden Figures. Following Monday’s news that Johnson ...

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.

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 ...

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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.