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Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs,West Virginia, on August 26, 1918. Math came easy to her, but she worked hard to master geometry and algebra. She started high school when she was just 10 years old (most kids are in fourth or fifth grade when they’re 10!) and college when...
A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Katherine Johnson, American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program. Her work helped send astronauts to the Moon. She received the Presidential Medal of