Katherine Johnson | |
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Born | Katherine Coleman August 26, 1918 |
Died | February 24, 2020 Newport News, Virginia, US | (aged 101)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | West Virginia State University, West Virginia University |
Occupation | Physicist, Mathematician |
Employer | NACA, NASA |
Known for | Calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions |
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an African American physicist and mathematician. She finished schooling at a very early age. Katherine Johnson was 1 of the first 3 black people allowed to study at West Virginia University, because which before that was officially racist and did not let black people be students. She was known for her work on the United States' aeronautics and space programs where she worked with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.