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.

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 ...

When Katherine Johnson began working at the National ... with plans to major in French and English and become a teacher. An African American mathematics professor persuaded her to change fields.

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the ... During her long life, she was a wife, a mother, an African-American, a teacher, and a human computer, a term rarely used these ...

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 ...

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, a West Virginia native who began her scientific career in the age of Jim Crow, was also African-American. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of ...

NASA on Friday officially renamed a facility in West Virginia after Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film ...

Johnson helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. A Virginia middle school that was once named after a Confederate soldier has been renamed in honor of African American ...

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 ...

Katherine Johnson, one of the history-making ... In a tweet, he called Johnson "an American hero." Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film about trailblazing ...

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 ...