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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician known for accuratlly charting celestial navigation using math formulas. She was part of the "Computers in Skirts"- women who crunched numbers for NASA space flights.
Katherine calculated the trajectory for Project Mercury and the Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. She also checked the compluter generated calculations to make sure they were correct for other missions.
Mathematician & Physicist
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Harvard University
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Stanford University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Harvard University
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Stanford University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Complex System Analysis
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Discrete Mathematics
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Mechanics
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Measurement Theory
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Fractal Geometry
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Fluid Dynamics
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Trajectory Analysis
Nuclear Physicist
Taylor Wilson built a fusion reactor in his garage at the age of 14. Now at the age of 21 he has plans to create small, more efficient fission reactors, that could be essential to space travel.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Michigan State University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Washington
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Atomic Physics
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Nuclear Medicine
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Ion Implantation in Materials Engineering
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Radiocarbon Dating
Taylor Wilson
