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 ...

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 ...

Nearly two years after her remarkable story was immortalized on screen in the film ‘Hidden Figures,’ Katherine Johnson ... William & Mary’s first African-American residential students ...

Trailblazing NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. Johnson was a key member of a group of African-American women whose vital mathematical work helped lay the ...

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.

Katherine Johnson, one of the African American women whose stories received global attention in the best-selling book and blockbuster movie, “Hidden Figures,” has turned 101. The renowned ...

Katherine Johnson, the former NASA mathematician ... has been renamed in honor of Johnson — an African-American woman who led a distinguished career at the agency during a time when race ...

A new scholarship created as a tribute to NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson will benefit African American students studying math or science within West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts ...

The plaudits for Katherine Johnson, the African American math genius whose work helped Americans to fly in space and ultimately to the moon, have been many and well deserved. Anyone who has seen ...

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 ...