When Katherine Johnson ­began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953, she was classified as “subprofessional,” not far outranking a secretary or janitor.

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first trip to space, turns 100 today. Before the arrival of electronic data processors, aka, computers in the 1960s ...

Mr. Obama paid tribute Monday, writing: "After a lifetime of reaching for the stars, today, Katherine Johnson landed among them. She spent decades as a hidden figure, breaking barriers behind the ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who defied prejudice in the ’50s and ’60s to help NASA send the first men to the moon, has died at the age of 101. Only recently famous after the film ...

The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia – her native state – houses programs that help safeguard NASA’s highest-profile missions by ...

Katherine Johnson, one of the African American women whose stories received global attention in the best-selling book and blockbuster movie, “Hidden Figures,” has turned 101. The renowned ...

Katherine G. Johnson is having quite the year ... If you gave her a three-digit number to multiply, she could figure it out within seconds, so I knew she was brilliant and I knew that she worked ...

NASA honored Hidden Figure, Katherine G. Johnson (1918-2020), a pioneering mathematician whose groundbreaking work contributed to America's space exploration. Her remarkable achievements earned ...

Naturally MAKER Katherine Johnson, who inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, has the perfect solution. The living legend, who turns 100 on Aug. 26, says all she wants is for young ...