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Katherine Johnson

Post by tiger76 » Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:45 pm

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101.

One of the unsung heroines of countless Nasa missions,most notably Apollo 11,and a major trailblazer for the African-American community at a time of segregation.

RIP Katherine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51619848

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by mdd2 » Mon Feb 24, 2020 10:51 pm

RIP the lady
What a career

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by IanMcL » Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:54 am

Pity she has to die aged 101, before she receives publicity and acknowledgement!

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by Elbarad » Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:57 am

IanMcL wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:54 am
Pity she has to die aged 101, before she receives publicity and acknowledgement!
Well they did make a movie about her...

But point taken, it took too long.

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by Clarets4me » Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:27 am

IanMcL wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:54 am
Pity she has to die aged 101, before she receives publicity and acknowledgement!
And ditto for the lady pilots who flew planes between bases during the War, the many female spies during the same conflict, and the young women who worked at Bletchley Park, not to mention the great Beatrice Shilling, who's device cured Rolls Royce Merlin engines of their propensity to cut out during attacking manoeuvres during a " Dog-fight " ...

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by Tricky Trevor » Tue Feb 25, 2020 7:15 am

RIP Katherine. A long distinguished career and a great movie about that career.
She wouldn’t be as happy to know that in binary she was only 5.

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Re: Katherine Johnson

Post by Whitgord » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:59 am

Sorry to be pedantic but in binary she would have been 1100101. i.e. still 101 years old.
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