Katherine Johnson

NASA Scientist

Quote: "Girls are capable of doing everything, men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."(Source: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/4a/45/e5/4a45e5ca0cf95239634c81c55d3336e1.jpg)

Biography: A bright child with a gift for numbers, she breezed through her classes and completed the eighth grade by age 10. Although her town didn’t offer classes for African Americans after that point, her father, drove the family 120 miles to attend high school. Then at 18, she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in mathematics and French. Johnson learned that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was hiring African American women to serve as "computers" people who performed and checked calculations for technological developments. (Source: https://www.biography.com/scientist/katherine-g-johnson)