“Sometimes I could see that others in the class did not understand what W.W.I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.” – Katherine Johnson “I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped.“In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong.” – Katherine Johnson.Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” – Katherine Johnson “Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing.“There are only two conditions right or wrong in math” – Katherine Johnson.“Give credit to everyone who helped, I didn’t do anything alone.” – Katherine Johnson.“There’s nothing to it I was just doing my job.” – Katherine Johnson.
“Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the Moon.” – Katherine Johnson.“I’m always interested in learning something new.” – Katherine Johnson.That’s an art and a science.” – Katherine Johnson “We needed to be assertive as women in those days – assertive and aggressive – and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were.She passed away at 101 years old in February of 2020. Johnson Computational Research Facility in 2016. Katherine Johnson retired from NASA in 1986, but received many awards and honours for her work, NASA even named a building Katherine G. She also calculated paths for spacecrafts such as ‘Freedom 7’ (1961). Johnson played a very important role in some of NASA’s projects, such as the Mercury Project (1961-1963). She authored and co authored at least 26 research reports throughout her career. While working for NASA, she was the first woman from her division to receive credit for a research paper she had co-written in 1960. In 1959 she married James Johnson, and after that she was known as Katherine Johnson. She married a man named James Goble, he died in 1956. At age 18, Katherine Coleman graduated West Virginia State College in 1937 with the highest honours in mathematics and French. Her work actually was involved in sending astronauts to the moon.Īs a child, her intelligence didn’t go unnoticed, when she was 10 years old she began high school. She was a known American mathematician that worked for NASA and calculated many flight paths while working for the U.S. Katherine Johnson was born as Katherine Coleman in 1918 in the state of West Virginia.