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Katherine Johnson
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| Born | Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26)August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US |
| Died | February 24, 2020(2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | West Virginia State University, West Virginia University |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, Mathematician |
| Employer(s) | NACA, NASA |
| Known for | Calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions |
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an African American physicist and mathematician.
She finished schooling at a very early age. Katherine Johnson was 1 of the first 3 black people allowed to study at West Virginia University, because which before that was officially racist and did not let black people be students.[1] She was known for her work on the United States' aeronautics and space programs where she worked with the early app