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101-year-old Katherine Johnson an American mathematician is dead

101-year-old Katherine Johnson an American mathematician is dead

Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson), born on August 26, 1918, and died on February 24, 2020. She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and the subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.…

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