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A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- Title
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison.
- Author
- Slade, Suzanne
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jamison, Veronica Miller
- Description
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 27 x 27 cm
- Summary
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
- Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
- Subjects
- United States
- Women mathematicians
- United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mathematicians
- African American women mathematicians
- Juvenile works
- African American women scientists > Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- African American women mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Employees
- Picture books
- Biography
- African Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G > Juvenile literature
- Black author
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Audience (note)
- Age 4-8.
- Call Number
- Sc+ F 19-251
- ISBN
- 9780316435178
- 0316435171
- 9780316511315 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780316511322 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780316435161 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017015316
- OCLC
- 1088559430
- Author
- Slade, Suzanne, author.
- Title
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison.
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Age 4-8.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Jamison, Veronica Miller, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ F 19-251