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On the shoulders of hidden giants

09 Mar 2017
Taken from the March 2017 issue of Physics World

NASA engineer K Renee Horton reviews Hidden Figures, the film and the book

Photo of Katherine Johnson at work at NASA
Trailblazer: Katherine Johnson now has a NASA computational facility named after her, but before she retired in 1986, she, like most female black employees at the time, was not celebrated. (Courtesy: NASA)
I was born in 1971, by which time astronaut John Glenn had orbited the Earth and Neil Armstrong had

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K Renee Horton is president of the National Society of Black Physicists and a Space Launch System metallic/weld engineer at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, US, www.reneehortonphd.com, e-mail renee@reneehortonphd.com

 

The opinions stated within this article are the author’s personal opinions and do not represent the opinions of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) or the United States Federal Government.
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