Mary johnson

2/18/15 12:45 est Update: The Friendly Atheist now has a post about Mary Johnson’s discussion in the comments section here with Thomas J. McDonald about

Mary Jackson, NASA Engineer

Happy Women’s History Month! Hidden Figures •☆• Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan

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Women of NASA, inspirational women, mathematicians and engineers.

Although advances in science and technology are often portrayed as the work of solitary men—for example, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein—science has always been a collective enterprise, dependent on many individuals who work behind the scenes. This has become increasingly true as more scientists work on large research projects funded by governments and staffed by hundreds of technicians. Yet despite the collaborative nature of science, for too much of its history the work of…

Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work: NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years which included calculating the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24 2015.

NASA has renamed its Washington, DC headquarters after the brilliant, late Mary Jackson—the first black woman engineer at the space agency. She worked at NASA, in various positions, from 1951 through 1985 and her building is located on the recently renamed Hidden Figures Way (named for the film that highlighted Jackson's work, along with mathematicians…