Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Katherine G. Johnson.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Katherine G.
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 37 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Mathematician and computer scientist Katherine G. Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She attended West Virginia State College where she met Dr. W.W. Schieffelin Claytor who created a special course in analytic geometry for her continued education. Johnson earned her B.S. degree in French and mathematics in 1937. She then worked as a high school mathematics teacher until 1953 when she became a research mathematician for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Johnson worked in the Flight Research Division before moving to the Spacecraft Controls Branch. In 1961, she calculated the trajectory of Alan Shepard's Mercury Flight. In 1962, she verified the mathematics behind John Glenn's orbit, and in 1969, she calculated the trajectory for the Apollo 11 flight. Johnson received NASA's Lunar Spacecraft and Operation's Group Achievement Award and the NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement Award. Johnson retired from NASA in 1986.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Katherine G. Johnson
• Katherine G. Johnson

Subject

• Johnson, Katherine G. > Interviews
• Johnson, Katherine G
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Computer Scientist

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

1000486527

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Katherine G. Johnson.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

023729

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Hampton, Virginia 2012 February 6.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Computer Scientist.

Added Author

Johnson, Katherine G., interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.