Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson in 2008
Born	Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26)August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US
Died	February 24, 2020(2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, US
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.