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Ms. Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race. By Allyson Waller That “giant ...

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Katherine Johnson, NASA's iconic mathematician in 'Hidden Figures', dead at 101 Katherine Johnson, the venerated NASA mathematician who was the subject of the film “Hidden Figures,” has died at 101.

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for NASA during the ...

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. In a ...

Katherine Johnson sits at her desk with a globe, or "Celestial Training Device." Many Americans are familiar with the astronaut heroes of the 20th century space race — names like Gus Grissom and Neil ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...