Photo of the Day: Real Life ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson Turns 100, Honored with Statue
August 28, 2018
NSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State University has honored NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson with a bronze statue and scholarship dedication on the eve of her 100th birthday. Six of Johnson’s grandchildren revealed the statue during a ceremony Saturday on the West Virginia State campus in Institute. The university also awarded a scholarship in Johnson’s name to two students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math. Johnson turned 100 on Sunday. She graduated from the school in 1937 at age 18 with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and French. Johnson and three other women crunched numbers at the NASA Langley Research
