A new facility at the NASA Langley Research Center is named after Katherine G. Johnson
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Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and inspiration for the film 'Hidden Figures,' is dead at 101
For almost her entire life, her seminal work in American space travel went unnoticed. Only recently has Johnson's genius received national recognition.
Female Code Breakers: The Hidden Figures of the Greatest Generation
Do you like crossword puzzles and are you engaged to be married? Those were the questions asked of many college-age American women by their professors, college presidents, or military officers to assess their suitability to do secret work breaking German and Japanese codes during the Second World War.
