Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson[edit]

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OriginalKatherine Johnson coolly calculates her next move. Well, the next move of America's space program. Emphasis on move: She calculated trajectories of manned space missions by hand.
Reason
  • Math - Computers + Katherine Johnson = Man in Space.
  • Math + Computers + Katherine Johnson = Man on Moon.
  • Men in Space + Disaster + Katherine Johnson = Men safely on Earth.

Also, it's a nice action shot. OF MATH!

Articles in which this image appears
Katherine Johnson
FP category for this image
She's a mathematician, but she was applying that math to physics, so I think Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering makes sense.
Creator
NASA, restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Struck as user isn't eligible to !vote. (was registered only 2 days ago instead of the required 25) Armbrust The Homunculus 11:15, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • SupportJobas (talk) 10:22, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I feel that the picture needs to be cropped, so that the focus is on her. --Rainbow Archer (talk) 11:16, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think pictures of people at their job add a lot of value that cropping tends to remove. If we crop it to her, it would tend to de-emphasise that she was a NASA mathematician. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:42, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]