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Author:

Feldman, Thea, author.

Title:

Katherine Johnson / by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen.

Publisher:

Simon Spotlight,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Johnson, Katherine,--1918---Juvenile literature.
United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Juvenile literature.
Physicists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women physicists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African American women--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Biographies.
Physicists--Biography.
Women physicists--Biography.
Mathematicians--Biography.
Women mathematicians--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.

Other Authors:

Petersen, Alyssa, illustrator.

Contents:

A Family to Count On -- Math, Katherine's Number One Love -- A "Computer" in a Skirt -- Katherine Takes Off! -- An Infinite Contribution -- But Wait... There's More!

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1518252842
9781518252846

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)