Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson — whose work inspired Hidden Figures — appeared at Sunday's Academy Awards with the film's cast Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at ...

"Because of your hard work little girls EVERYWHERE can dream as big as the MOON," the actress, who played Katherine Johnson, said of the mathematician Taraji P. Henson is paying her respects to ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

Hidden Figures became an instant classic when it hit theaters in 2016—largely because of its empowering portrayal of the often-overlooked black female mathematicians who worked for NASA during ...

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Glen Powell has recalled watching a rough cut of 2016’s Hidden Figures for the first time, admitting he was terrified his performance “ruined” the movie. Powell, 35, portrayed real-life ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut John Glenn wouldn’t have been the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.

In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...