Katherine Johnson

CTL-E-1065 · Institution · other · 1953-1986

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Mathematician who worked as a human 'computer' in the West Area Computing section at NACA Langley, later performing trajectory analysis for the first U.S. human spaceflights.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-058; source research type(s): None.

Sources

NASA, 'Birthplace of a Hidden Figure' (2021) (primary source)
NASA (2021); National Geographic (primary source)

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