President Obama awards Katherine G. Johnson, then 97, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a ceremony Nov. 24, 2015, in the East Room of the White House.
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Katherine G. Johnson, trailblazing NASA mathematician immortalized in the film 'Hidden Figures,' dies at 101
Katherine G. Johnson, the mathematical genius whose calculations took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, at her residence at an assisted living facility in Newport News.
