throwaway39AZ

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throwaway39AZ··on Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

I do know of Mae Jemison and Rosalind Franklin. Mae Jemison and Sally Ride, and Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick have a similar number of page views on Wikipedia, so I think they are all generally known about as well as each other. Maurice Wilkins less so.

throwaway39AZ··on Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

> the recent efforts to highlight their work an contributions

Precisely! They have not gone unrecognized unlike the hundreds of thousands of other NASA ground staff.

> they were ignored for so long.

They never were ignored. They have recently been elevated above all the other NASA ground staff.

throwaway39AZ··on Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

> You know of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, but have you heard of Lewis Latimer?

His work was not as significant. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer#Technical... to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents

throwaway39AZ··on Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

I'm so sorry. I'm just supposed to believe that "so many people, particularly women and people of color, have gone unrecognized for their accomplishments in their lifetime" when Katherine Johnson and Margaret Hamilton are the only NASA ground staff that I can name. Is there anything else you want me to believe?

throwaway39AZ··on Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on Mercury and Apollo. How many can you name?