That’s because the street on which the building sits has been renamed Hidden Figures Way. The new name honors the work of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, the so-called “human ...

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HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...

Katherine Johnson, a retired NASA mathematician of "Hidden Figures" fame, turned 101 today (Aug. 26). Johnson was a math whiz who joined NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for ...

WASHINGTON - The three African-American women whose stories were shared in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” will be awarded Congressional Gold Medals. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering ...

The NASA mathematician, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, who was depicted in the award-winning movie, Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. Here are five facts about the renowned NASA scientist ...

When it comes to depicting the women mathematicians and engineers whose work helped to advance supersonic flight research and landing the first humans on the moon, do you show them as "hidden figures" ...

Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures," died Monday, the administrator of NASA said. She was 101. "Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space even ...

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.” By Margalit Fox They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and ...

(CNN) — For decades, the contributions of the black, female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden. Not anymore. Now, you’ll be reminded of what the women ...