Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

Former Governor Cecil Underwood died in Charleston. Underwood, West Virginia’s 25th and 32nd governor, had the distinction of ...

This was what a research mathematician did ... 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating her ...

Katherine Johnson was one of four talented African American women working for NASA in the 1950s-60s. As a physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, she calculated the orbits of US astronauts ...

A “Hidden Figures” mathematician who helped America win ... Katherine Moore accepted the honor for her mother, Katherine Johnson, whose calculations in the new field of orbital mechanics ...

The Washington DC street's name is a nod to the title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. They made significant contributions to space ...