The pivotal roles of Johnson and other African-American women at NASA were highlighted in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures." NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson (2nd L) appears onstage with (L-R ...

Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half ... That she was an African American woman in an almost all-male and white workforce made her career even more remarkable.

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

Groundbreaking mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the first African American women to work as a NASA scientist, and who played a pivotal role in calculating the trajectory of spaceflights ...

Johnson. By then Katherine Johnson had been working ... During World War II, NACA also began hiring African-American women with degrees in math and science as part of President Franklin ...

Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. As a historian of mathematics, I have studied ...

The film tells the untold story of three African-American women — Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) — who worked as ...

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations ... working in relative obscurity as an African-American woman. Her contributions were later recognized in the “Hidden Figures ...

When Katherine Johnson began working at the National ... with plans to major in French and English and become a teacher. An African American mathematics professor persuaded her to change fields.

Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took 98 years ... That she was an African-American woman in an almost all-male and white workforce made her career even more remarkable.

Related video: African-American pioneers in NASA's space programCNN contributed to this report. Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America's first trip to space ...