Hidden figures

the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

231 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2016 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
9780062662385
OCLC Number:
964450826

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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through …

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Un livre super important sur les premières femmes Afro-Américaines à la Nasa

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Hidden Figures - Les Figures de l'Ombre en Français - parle des mathématiciennes afro-américaines qui ont joué un rôle crucial dans les programmes de recherche aéronautique et spatiale américains, de la NACA (créée en 1915) à la NASA (qui a remplacé la première en 1958).

Margot L. Shetterly commence - dans un prologue (page 6) avec des souvenirs personnels, une visite à sa famille, des conversations et des activités ; et les premières étapes de recherche pour ce livre. Son père avait rejoint le Langley Research Center en 1964, et c'est l'ensemble principal du reste des 23 chapitres du livre, centrés principalement sur la vie de Dorothy Vaughan, sa carrière - d'abord en tant que professeure de mathématiques, puis sa plus longue carrière commençant en 1943, lorsqu'elle a également rejoint le Centre de recherche de Langley du NACA.

À part elle, des histoires sur Miriam Mann, Katherine Goble, Doris Cohen, …

Subjects

  • Officials and employees
  • Women mathematicians
  • Space race
  • United States
  • African American mathematicians
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • African American women
  • United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • African Americans
  • Juvenile literature
  • Biography
  • Women

Places

  • United States