Katherine Johnson
By: by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen
Contributors: Petersen, Alyssa, ill
Edition: Simon Spotlight edition.
Series: Ready-to-read. Level three, Megastar reader!; Ready-to-read
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9781534403413
Subjects: African Americans; Women mathematicians; Mathematicians; Physicists; African American women; Juvenile literature; Women physicists; Women
Other titles: You should meet Katherine Johnson
Description: 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.
Notes: At head of title: You should meet.

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