Katherine Johnson

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Location	Collection	Call #
Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale	Juvenile Rising Voices	J RV3 FEL
Location	Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale
Collection	Juvenile Rising Voices
Call Number	J RV3 FEL

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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.

Contents

A family to count on
Math, Katherine's number one love
A "computer" in a skirt
Katherine takes off!
An infinite contribution.

Additional Information

Series	You should meet.
Subjects	Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature. Johnson, Katherine G. United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature. United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Physicists -- Biography. Mathematicians -- Biography. African Americans -- Biography. Women -- Biography. Biographies.
Publisher	New York, NY :Scholastic Inc.,2017
Other Titles	You should meet Katherine Johnson
Contributors	Petersen, Alyssa, illustrator.
Language	English
Notes	At head of title: You should meet. "Rising voices library"--Cover.
Description	47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
ISBN	9781338547412 1338547410
Other	Classic View