Katherine Maleman Goble Johnson Research Paper
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician and physicist who is known for calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions. She was born on the 26th of August, 1918 in the town of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Katherine was a very brilliant child and by the age of 13 she was attending the black West Virginia State College’s high school. At 18, she enrolled in the actual college graduating in 1937 with the most advanced honors. In 1939, Katherine was handpicked along with two African-American males to be offered seats at West Virginia University. She quit one semester in because she decided it was time to start aa family with her husband. In the summer of 1953 Katherine Johnson received a position to work