Katherine Johnson Research Paper

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Katherine Johnson is a Nasa Mathematician who was influenced by Dorothy Vaughn. She graduated from high school at the age of 15 and went to college at West Virginia at the age of 16. During her studies at WV, she took a variety of classes in the mathematics, English and French Departments. When she turned 18 she graduated cum laude with a bachelor in mathematics and French. Johnson first project was the calculation of the trajectory of the first astronaut to travel through space in 1961. After the success from her first project she was offered other projects. For example, she verified the accuracy of the first calculation done by computers and calculated the trajectory for Apollo 11. Johnson even authored 26 scientific papers on topics from

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