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.--.
year: 2017
call number/section: 920, 1000, 92, 921
subjects: johnson, katherine, 1918-, juvenile literature, united states, national aeronautics and space administration, officials and employees, juvenile literature, women mathematicians, united states, juvenile literature, african american women, african american mathematicians, space race, mathematicians, african americans, biography, women, biographies, readers (publications), johnson, katherine g, physicists, women physicists, scientists, juvenile nonfiction, women, beginner, aeronautics, astronautics & space science
Editions
Feldman, Thea
Simon Spotlight (2017)
[You Should Meet #6] A biography about NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson-whose incredible life story is part of the hit feature film Hidden Figures.
Schools: 4
Feldman, Thea
Explore the life and accomplishments of NASA's Katherine Johnson, nicknamed the "Human computer.".
Schools: 13
Feldman, Thea
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.--.
Schools: 1