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Katherine Johnson: A Brief Biography
Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician. She was born on august 26 , 1918. Apparently, she is still alive and she is 98 years old.She was born in White Sulphur Spring , West Virginia.She worked at NASA for 33 years.She was hired by NACA in 1953 to work as a human computer and retired from NASA in 1986.She started high school at the age of 10 and at the age of 18 , she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in mathematics and French.She has been honored with lots of awards.She got NASA lunar orbiter spacecraft and the operations team reward , she got the national technical associations designation as its 1997 mathematician of the year.She also got a presidential award of freedom in 2015 by president
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