Katherine Johnson, The NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights With A Slide Rule And Pencil

BY: Charles Bolden/Vanity Fair  NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a female African-American in the 1960s, shattered stereotypes in the process. When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were…