Katherine Johnson

Kathleen Coleman Goble Johnson, whose real name is Cleola Catherine Gowan, was born in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, United States. She is a mathematician and physicist. The success of the United States' first and subsequent manned space flights was largely due to its computational data in the field of aerospace dynamics. Catherine Johnson has worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), for 35 years. She is good at performing a large number of complex manual calculations with the assistance of digital computer programming. She is considered one of the first African-American female scientists to work at NASA.