west virginia born mathematician catherine johnson is personally responsible for excess in the world of spent space exploration more than many who are much more broadly revered johnson who was portrayed in the film had been figures calculated the mabs needed to find safe orbital or to orbit of the trajectory is for the first moon landing crude space screwed spaceflights lunar landers and space shuttles and now at the tender age of one hundred she is being honored by mass on a very important building the facility is where a team assures the safety and success of all software on nasa as high profile missions now named the catherine johnson independent verification of elephant validation facility it serves not only as a celebration of black history month in the accomplishment of black women but of the many unsung heroes of science and discovery who told toil in anonymity but whose work changes the world there was an awful lot of silent people whose work trains of the world and i hope to get the light shined on some of them later because that's not for everybody yeah everybody comes. the

mathematicians who contributed in a major way to nasa as apollo space program it took a long time for catherine johnson dorothy vaughn and mary jackson to get the recognition they deserved throughout history many other women have had a big impact on the sciences. the first documented female physician in history was passing in ancient egypt around two thousand six hundred b.c.e. she practiced medicine. and trained more than one hundred midwives. an inscription on the babylonian tablet from one thousand two hundred b.c.e. suggests that the world's first chemist was to put. in addition to creating perth humans she developed an operator's for distilling liquids modern versions of her invention are still in use today. in around the year four hundred hypatia of alexandria was a mathematician and the first woman to give university lectures in philosophy and astronomy she was killed by a mob of christian fanatics. her murder was recorded in the history books but her scientific achievements were not over the centuries women made many more contributions to science. in seven hundred eighty six german born astrono

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