Meet Katherine Johnson, the first African-American woman Mathematician who helped NASA put the first man on the Moon, and an #astronaut into orbit around the earth. Born in August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia, in a family of six, Katherine showed strong signs of brilliance and flare for numbers at an early
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Have you ever wondered who was the brain behind the invention of the GPS technology with which your smartphone operates? Meet Dr Gladys West, an African-American Mathematician born in 1930 in her hometown Sutherland, Virginia, USA. As a Mathematician, Dr West devoted most of her time collecting and analyzing satellite data from the surface of
Do you know that the STEM world would not be were it is today without the immense contributions of many black women? Here are two striking examples of black women who have made groundbreaking inventions in the advance of Medical Science. Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1961) is a Black woman Medical Scientist that developed the Ball
