11+ Katherine Johnson Nasa Young Background. Katherine johnson, one of the trailblazing african american mathematicians whose story was told in the hit film hidden figures, has died, nasa johnson worked at the national advisory committee for aeronautics, or naca, a segregated computing unit which became the national aeronautics and. They asked katherine johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them.

Katherine johnson performed what might have been the most important job of her life backwards—because backwards was exactly the right johnson, of course, was only one of a host of great mathematical minds who made nasa's early history such a success, but it was both her race. She counted everything, from the number of steps she took to what did she do after nasa? Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power nasa's space travel in the early 1960s when the agency was still segregated.

Nasa mathematician katherine johnson, who helped pave the way for the first american astronaut to successfully orbit the earth, died monday in her 33 years at nasa, obama said at the time, johnson broke the barriers of race and gender, showing generations of young people that everyone.

Katherine johnson, one of the trailblazing african american mathematicians whose story was told in the hit film hidden figures, has died, nasa johnson worked at the national advisory committee for aeronautics, or naca, a segregated computing unit which became the national aeronautics and. Последние твиты от katherine johnson (@nasa_computer). Pioneering nasa mathematician katherine johnson has died at the age of 101. Graduate of west virginia statenasa computer assisted in alan.when i was young, i counted everything.i counted the steps up the road, the steps up to church,the number of dishes and silverware i washed.