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 ...

The daughter of a "Hidden Figure" will represent her mother Saturday evening as she is inducted into the International Air & ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut ... she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her. Read more: “Women are powerful in numbers ...

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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The street outside Nasa's headquarters has been named "Hidden ... a nod to the title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.

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.