Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon
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John Glenn wouldn't blast off until she double-checked the IBM's calculations
Maury was part of a group of brilliant women known as the "Harvard Computers"
She improved on Newton's work and outclassed Voltaire
She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
Her dramatic death often overshadows her epic life, but it shouldn't
Her unorthodox research showed us that chimpanzees are far more human than we thought