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Katherine Johnson

de Thea Feldman

Première publication en 2017 · 48 pages

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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.

  • African Americans
  • Women mathematicians
  • Mathematicians
  • Physicists
  • African American women
  • Juvenile literature
  • Women physicists
  • Women

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