What Else鈥Verna Benner CarsonKatherine Johnson VanderhorstHarold G. Koenig
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Ken: What were you doing, Jack? What did you see? Jack: It was half past nine last night and I was getting ready for bed. I heard some strange noise outside while I was brushing my teeth. I wondered what was happening and I went to the window and looked out. To my surprise, I...
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Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she’s been alive are “ordinary.”But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but.Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school at 14 years old, attended college the very next year...
John Singleton made history withBoyz n the Hood, his gripping drama of teens growing up in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles and having to deal with issues of race, violence and their prospects for the future. Not only did Singleton receive two Oscar nominations for his debut movie, ...
This plunged him, his wife Pilar del Rio says in her introduction to the novel, “into a painful, indelible silence that lasted decades”. As he himself explains, inthe biography he put together when he accepted the Nobel prize, he “started another one, but did not get past the first ...
Little did I know that Debra would become my most trusted adviser and one of my biggest cheerleaders!” — Lori Fischer (PA)*Rethink Home Interiors (PA) “Being able to consider starting a staging business with so many questions already answered almost feels as if I’m cheating! The ...
Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, but LIGO did not detect them until 2015. Katherine Johnson calculated a flight path to send humans to the moon in 1962, based on the mechanics that Newton devised in 1678. The foundation of physics has been built over several ...
Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson of "Hidden Figures" fame was always at the front of the class. Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the iconic "human computer" was taking classes on the campus of historically Black West Virginia State College...