Title: 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.
Subjects: African Americans, Women mathematicians, Mathematicians, Physicists, African American women, Juvenile literature, Women physicists, Women, United states, national aeronautics and space administration, United states, juvenile literature, Women, biography, juvenile literature, African americans, biography, African americans, biography, juvenile literature
People: Katherine G. Johnson (1918-)