| LC control no. | n 79016663 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Johnson, Katherine G. |
| Variant(s) | Johnson, Katherine, 1918- Coleman, Katherine, 1918-2020 Goble, Katherine, 1918-2020 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Hampton (Va.) |
| Birth date | 1918-08-26 |
| Death date | 2020-02-24 |
| Place of birth | White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Mathematics |
| Affiliation | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| Profession or occupation | Physicists Mathematicians Authors |
| Found in | Hamer, H. A. Effects of errors on ... 1978 (a.e.) title page (Katherine G. Johnson; Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.) NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, 2018: ECIP title page (Katherine Johnson) chapter 1 (Katherine G. Johnson; born in West Virginia, in 1918) chapter 3 (a teacher; gave up teaching to join NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in 1953) Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center. NASA history [series bulletin], Aug. 26, 2016, viewed Oct. 27, 2016 (NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson; b. Aug. 25, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia) A computer called Katherine, how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon, 2018: ECIP, end of galley, at Timeline (Katherine Coleman is born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, August 26, 1918; marries James Francis Goble, 1939; he dies, 1956; marries Lieutenant Colonel James Johnson, 1959; receives Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 24, 2015) Wikipedia, June 14, 2019: Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (b. Aug. 26, 1918) is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson> Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb 24, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 24, 2020: Katherine Johnson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953; died Feb. 24 at 101; worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a computer at the NACA's flight research division, based at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.; Katherine Coleman was born in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., on Aug. 26, 1918; retired from Langley in 1986) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2017027013 |
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