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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.

Other Authors:

Petersen, Alyssa, illustrator.

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.

Series:

Ready to read. Level three
You should meet

ISBN:

153440340X
9781534403406
1534403418
9781534403413

OCLC:

(OCoLC)972383591

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