Katherine Johnson / by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen.
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TextSeries: You should meet | Ready-to-read. Level three, Megastar reader!Publication details: New York : Simon Spotlight, c2017.Edition: Simon Spotlight editionDescription: 47 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781534403406 (pbk.) :
- You should meet Katherine Johnson
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine, 1918-
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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- Women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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- Mathematicians
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- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Reader -- Beginner
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Technology -- Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
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| j529 Sta Making simple clocks / | j530 Dav What's physics all about? / | j530.078 Meb Salts & solids / | j530.092 Fel Katherine Johnson / | j530.092 Par Isaac Newton and gravity / | j530.1 Ard Making measurements / | j530.1 Ard Making measurements / |
At head of title: You should meet.
A family to count on -- Math, Katherine's number one love -- A "computer" in a skirt -- Katherine takes off! -- An infinite contribution.
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.--
Age 6-8.
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