Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson

Thea Feldman

Book - 2017

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.

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Johnson, Katherine G. > Juvenile literature.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Juvenile literature.
Physicists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women physicists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Biographies.
Genres
Biographies
Published
New York : Simon Spotlight 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Thea Feldman (author)
Other Authors
Alyssa Petersen (illustrator)
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition
Item Description
At head of title: You should meet.
Physical Description
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
910L
ISBN
9781534403413
9781534403406
9781518252846
  • A family to count on
  • Math, Katherine's number one love
  • A "computer" in a skirt
  • Katherine takes off!
  • An infinite contribution.

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