美國宇航局著名數(shù)學(xué)家凱瑟琳·約翰遜逝世，享年101歲

美國宇航局著名數(shù)學(xué)家凱瑟琳·約翰遜逝世，享年101歲

Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.

美國國家航空航天局(NASA)稱，凱瑟琳約翰遜，一位開創(chuàng)性的美國宇航局黑人數(shù)學(xué)家，周一去世，享年101歲，其一生被描繪在電影《隱藏的人物》中。

Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.

約翰遜的計(jì)算幫助人類在1969年登上了月球，但直到2016年奧斯卡提名電影講述了三個(gè)在NASA工作的黑人女性的故事之前，人們對(duì)她知之甚少。

"She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, honoring "her courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her."

“她是一位美國英雄，她開創(chuàng)性的遺產(chǎn)將永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)被遺忘。”美國宇航局局長吉姆·布里登斯汀說，她向“她的勇氣和沒有她我們無法達(dá)到的里程碑”致敬。

Johnson and a colleague were the first to calculate the parameters of the suborbital 1961 flight of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

約翰遜和他的同事是第一個(gè)計(jì)算1961年宇航員艾倫·謝潑德(Alan Shepard)亞軌道飛行參數(shù)的人，艾倫·謝潑德是第一個(gè)進(jìn)入太空的美國人。

Her math talents later helped determine the trajectory of the Apollo 11 flight that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in July 1969.

后來，她的數(shù)學(xué)天賦幫助確定了1969年7月尼爾·阿姆斯特朗和巴茲·奧爾德林登上月球的阿波羅11號(hào)飛行軌跡。

US president Barack Obama presented Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2015.

2015年，美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬向約翰遜頒發(fā)了美國最高平民榮譽(yù)——總統(tǒng)自由勛章。