In 1943, in the midst of World War II, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, VA seeks to hire hundreds of junior physicists and mathematicians to help in the war effort by supporting engineers in performing aeronautical research as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the NACA). in math from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933 William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor вЂ“ he is a black research mathematician who graduates from Howard University in 1929 and earns a Ph.D. Henry Pearson вЂ“ he is the head of the branch of the Flight Research Division where Katherine Johnson works.

Philip Randolph вЂ“ he is an African-American Civil Rights leader and labor organizer who fights for equal rights for African-American workers. John Glenn вЂ“ is an astronaut and the first American to orbit the Earth.ДЄ. Margery Hannah вЂ“ she is West Area computingвЂ™s white section chief. Mary Jackson вЂ“ she works as a teacher and a USO secretary before taking a job as a computer at the NACA.Д¬hristine (Mann) Darden вЂ“ she is a black female aeronautical engineer who worked at the Langley Research Center for many years as a data analyst before rising to the top level in her field. Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson вЂ“ she is a passionate, outspoken black mathematician who works in the Flight Research Division at the Langley Research CenterДorothy Vaughan вЂ“ she is a strong-minded, black mathematician who joins Langley as a human-computer in 1943 and then works her way up to become the organizationвЂ™s first black section head. Lee III вЂ“ he is Margot Lee ShetterlyвЂ™s father and a renowned climate scientist who, for years, worked at Langley. Margot Lee Shetterly вЂ“ she is the author of Hidden Figures and the daughter of a climate research scientist who worked at Langley Research Center.Дr. Hidden figures is set in NASA Langley Research Center in 1961

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