Katherine Johnson: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Space Center Houston - Women in STEM: Katherine Johnson. Oct 25, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 22, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 20, 2026
Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Katherine Johnson. Jul 26, 2025
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Katherine Johnson. Jun 11, 2025
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - Meet the black women who broke ground in NASA space race. Apr 16, 2025
Add new Web site: IEEE Spectrum - Katherine Johnson, the Hidden Figures Mathematician Who Got Astronaut John Glenn Into Space. Feb 15, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 11, 2025
First paragraph modernization. May 09, 2024
Add new Web site: West Virginia State University - Katherine Johnson. Dec 05, 2023
Add new Web site: The West Virginia Encyclopedia - Katherine Johnson. Oct 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Biography of Katherine Johnson. Aug 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of the Katherine Johnson Foundation. Jun 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Women and the American Story - Life Story: Katherine Johnson (1918�2020). May 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Space.com - Katherine Johnson: Pioneering NASA mathematician. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC - Katherine Johnson: Hidden Figures Nasa mathematician dies at 101. Oct 31, 2021
Added her memoir, My Remarkable Journey. May 25, 2021
Added the location of her death. Feb 26, 2021
Corrected display issue. Feb 12, 2021
Changed “manned” to “crewed.” Apr 20, 2020
She died on February 24, 2020. Feb 24, 2020
Add new Web site: The HistoryMakers - Biography of Katherine G. Johnson. Jul 04, 2019
Media added. Mar 08, 2019
Add new Web site: West Virginia University - Alumni Association - Katherine Johnson. Nov 19, 2018
Add new Web site: NASA - Katherine G. Johnson. Oct 06, 2017
New article added. Mar 03, 2017
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