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National aeronautics and space administration page last updated: Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical. Johnson refused to be limited by society's expectations of her gender and race while expanding the boundaries of humanity's reach.

© nasa nasa research mathematician katherine johnson is photographed at her desk at nasa langley research center with a globe, or celestial training device, in 1962.

Johnson, whose calculations played a key role in the apollo 11 moon landing, earned nationwide acclaim decades later when her story was told in the book and movie hidden figures. Katherine johnson—a mathematician at nasa's langley research center in virginia who helped make human spaceflight possible—celebrated 100 trips around the sun this weekend. Johnson refused to be limited by society's expectations of her gender and race while expanding the boundaries of humanity's reach. (photo by nasa/donaldson collection/getty images).