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Categories: African-American centenarians, 21st-century American mathematicians, African-American schoolteachers, Presbyterians from Virginia, Articles with short description
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Katherine Johnson  Creola Katherine Coleman  Katherine Coleman  Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson  Katherine Coleman Johnson
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Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Wikipedia
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Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Wikipedia
American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician Wikipedia Disambiguation
African-American mathematician Wikidata
IS A
homo
PART OF
West Area Computers
AWARD RECEIVED
Virginia Women in History
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Gold Medal
100 Women
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
EDUCATED AT
University of West Virginia
West Virginia State University
ETHNIC GROUP
African-American
FAMILY NAME
Johnson
FIELD OF WORK
astrodynamics
mathematics
aerospace engineering
GIVEN NAME
Katherine
INFLUENCED BY
Dorothy Vaughan
Schieffelin Claytor
Angie Turner King
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
French
MEMBER OF
Alpha Kappa Alpha
OCCUPATION
computer scientist
teacher
mathematician
physicist
aerospace engineer
PLACE OF BIRTH
White Sulphur Springs
PLACE OF DEATH
Newport News
SEX OR GENDER
female
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
centenarian
Wikipedia
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Katherine Johnson
Wikidata
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Katherine Johnson
Wikipedia Redirections
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Creola Katherine Coleman, Katherine Coleman, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, Katherine Coleman Johnson, Katherine G. Johnson, Katherine Goble
Wikidata Alias
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Katherine Coleman, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, Katherine Goble

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