Katherine G. Johnson

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gptkbp:instanceOf Mathematician
gptkbp:awards Presidential Medal of Freedom
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:White_Sulphur_Springs,_West_Virginia
gptkbp:born August 26, 1918
gptkbp:children Three
gptkbp:contribution Orbital mechanics
gptkbp:died February 24, 2020
gptkbp:education gptkb:West_Virginia_University
gptkbp:employees NASA
gptkbp:field Mathematics
gptkbp:honorificPrefix Honorary_Doctorate_from_Carnegie_Mellon_University
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Katherine G. Johnson
gptkbp:influenced Women in STEM
gptkbp:inspiration Hidden Figures
gptkbp:involved gptkb:Space_Shuttle_program
gptkbp:knownFor Calculating_flight_trajectories_for_NASA
gptkbp:legacy Pioneer_for_African_American_women_in_mathematics
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableWork Apollo_11_mission
gptkbp:research Aeronautics
Algebra
Astrophysics
Data analysis
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical logic
Mathematical modeling
Number theory
Optimization
Set theory
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Topology
Graph theory
Operations research
Abstract algebra
Computational mathematics
Mathematical biology
Mathematical economics
Mathematical physics
Numerical methods
Probability theory
Space exploration
Computational geometry
Differential equations
Functional analysis
Mathematical education
Complex analysis
Satellite communications
Real analysis
Trajectory analysis
Mathematical foundations
Mathematical psychology
Engineering mathematics
Mathematical philosophy
Mathematical history
Mathematical chemistry
Mathematical sociology
Mathematical_statistics
Linear_algebra
Earth_resources_satellite
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:James_A._Johnson