Watching Hidden Figures a couple months ago...
Thanks for mentioning this movie,
Hidden Figures. It is an excellent movie with a star-studded cast, now out on Blu-ray. I highly recommend it. The main protagonist, Katherine Johnson, is now 98 years old.
No doubt she is a gifted individual.
When she was 15, Katherine began college.
NASA links:
1.
Who is Katherine Johnson (Jan 18, 2017)
2.
Katherine Johnson Biography (Dec 1, 2016)
3.
Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work (Feb 25, 2016)
4.
Former NASA Langley Mathematician to be Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom (Nov 17, 2015)
5.
Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM (Nov 6, 2013)
The NASA website also features brief biographies of the movie's other two central characters:
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Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer, who was also in the movie "gifted"),
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Mary Jackson who graduated with
highest honors from high school.
