Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician depicted in 'Hidden Figures', has died at age 101.
She was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918 and skipped several grades due to her"intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers," her NASA profile says. At 13, she was attending the high school located on the campus of the historically black West Virginia State College, and enrolled there for undergraduate studies at 18.
After graduating in 1937 with the highest honors and degrees in mathematics and French, Johnson began teaching at a black public school in Virginia. Johnson enrolled in the graduate math program but left school after the first session to start a family with her husband, James Goble. The couple had three daughters, and she returned to teaching when they grew older.
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