Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, NASA mathematician, physicist, and scientist. Credit NASA
Katherine Globe Johnson, known as the "Black Woman Who Advanced Human Rights and Humanity With A Slide Rule and a Pencil" (see AfroAmerica Network), died on Monday, February 24, 2020. She was 101.
She was depicted as one of the history-making and barrier-breaking NASA mathematicians in "Hidden Figures," the biographical drama film based on the non-fiction book of Margot Lee Shetterly. She along with Octavia Spencer, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson were the black NASA employees who participated in calculating flight trajectories for Project Mercury in 1962.
