Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only ... (He died in 1956; she married her current husband, James Johnson, three years after that.) In the early 1950s, she learned that the ...

RELATED VIDEO: Former NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Makes PEOPLE’s List of 25 Women Changing the World She married her second husband James Johnson, an Army artillery officer, in 1959 ...

In 1939, the newly married Johnson—then known as Katherine Goble—enrolled as ... from school in order to raise a family with ...

Katherine really does play a role in that human computing lab," NASA historian Brian Odom told our sister publication All About History. In addition to excelling at her work, Johnson was ...

Capito says Johnson had features that made her have a lasting legacy. Shelley Moore Capito “As a West Virginian, Katherine (Johnson) used her toughness and grit to surpass societal barriers and ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated ... She left after the first session to start a family with her first husband, James Goble, and returned to teaching when her three daughters ...