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Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson: One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space Race
Hidden Figures
Katherine
One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space Race
Book
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is one of the most important pioneers from the American space movement. She is a physicist and a research mathematician who has calculated orbits and trajectories for historic space missions. This includes the first flight to walk on the moon. In addition, she has assisted in developing navigation systems to guide astronauts through space. Without perseverance, her career may have never left the ground. A combination of her own determination to pursue her dreams and her father’s push to keep his children in school helped her to overcome gender and race discrimination, leading to an exceptional life filled with professional acclamations and personal fulfillment.
Katherine Coleman was born as the youngest child of four in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on August 26, 1918. Her father, Joshua, was a farmer who was employed as a janitor for extra work. Her mother, Joylette, worked as a teacher in the local community. As a young child, Katherine demonstrated early signs of being a math prodigy, counting everything from the number of steps between home and church, to the number of dishes that she had to wash. She believes that her affinity for numbers was passed down from her father, who used to divide trees by the pieces of lumber that could be sourced. One of Katherine’s favorite childhood stories talks about how her father had a knack of solving arithmetic problems that stumped many of her teachers.
Katherine
One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space Race
Book
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is one of the most important pioneers from the American space movement. She is a physicist and a research mathematician who has calculated orbits and trajectories for historic space missions. This includes the first flight to walk on the moon. In addition, she has assisted in developing navigation systems to guide astronauts through space. Without perseverance, her career may have never left the ground. A combination of her own determination to pursue her dreams and her father’s push to keep his children in school helped her to overcome gender and race discrimination, leading to an exceptional life filled with professional acclamations and personal fulfillment.
Katherine Coleman was born as the youngest child of four in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on August 26, 1918. Her father, Joshua, was a farmer who was employed as a janitor for extra work. Her mother, Joylette, worked as a teacher in the local community. As a young child, Katherine demonstrated early signs of being a math prodigy, counting everything from the number of steps between home and church, to the number of dishes that she had to wash. She believes that her affinity for numbers was passed down from her father, who used to divide trees by the pieces of lumber that could be sourced. One of Katherine’s favorite childhood stories talks about how her father had a knack of solving arithmetic problems that stumped many of her teachers.
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Published February 14, 2017
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April 19, 2025
This is the book important from a women's empowerment point of view as the state of Virginia is suffering from difference in color and white people and color doesn't have few rights women rise from such an environment to do something extraordinary that changes point of View for the color Community in the state.
Katherine Johnson a mathematician who actually read between numbers and help John glenn and team land safely, she earn that respect and honour and trust from her sheer talent for numbers African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
She showed life is not fair to her but she bend the rules in their favour by sheer hardwork, dedication and love for the country and respect for the community and family they make it worth it. With over 4 decades of there life she helped NASA various operations and show the world a women can do better if equal opportunity is given without difference of Caste, creed, color and justice. She won president awards for her contribution to space program of NASA since 1961
Katherine Johnson a mathematician who actually read between numbers and help John glenn and team land safely, she earn that respect and honour and trust from her sheer talent for numbers African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
She showed life is not fair to her but she bend the rules in their favour by sheer hardwork, dedication and love for the country and respect for the community and family they make it worth it. With over 4 decades of there life she helped NASA various operations and show the world a women can do better if equal opportunity is given without difference of Caste, creed, color and justice. She won president awards for her contribution to space program of NASA since 1961
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