Katherine Johnson / by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen.
Material type: TextSeries: You should meet | Ready-to-read. Level three, Megastar reader!Publisher: New York : Simon Spotlight, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534403413
- 1534403418
- 9781534403406
- 153440340X
- Johnson, Katherine, 1918- -- Juvenile literature
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature
- Physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Reader | Johnson, K. F312 | Available | 33111008944999 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Reader | Johnson, K. F312 | Available | 33111008792265 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Get to know the woman who made many of NASA's early missions possible in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet!"
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.
A special section at the back of the book includes extras on subjects like history and math, plus inspiring careers for math lovers. With the You Should Meet series, learning about historical figures has never been so much fun!
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.