Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson ... after the Oscars! Hidden Figures, which follows Jackson, Johnson and Vaughan and their crucial contributions to the American space program, became ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... P Henson on why togetherness is key right now Until the release of hit film Hidden Figures earlier this year, Johnson’s achievements weren’t well-known.

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are the names most commonly associated with these groundbreaking women, largely thanks to Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures and the ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African ... Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Goble Johnson crossed ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures ... core of the Space Task Group, the NACA's ...

Although they may never completely shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures ... to the Space Task Group, Johnson ...