The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Arlie Petters

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Arlie Petters

2/21/2012

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2012.050

Business professor, mathematician, and physicist Arlie Petters (1964 - ) is a foremost scholar on gravitational lensing and has served as chairman on the Council of Science Advisors to the Prime Minister of Belize since 2010. Petters was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 2/21/2012, in Durham, North Carolina. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 25m 03s

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Petters, Arlie O., 1964-....

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Mathematician, physicist and business professor Arlie Petters was born on February 8, 1964 in Dangriga, Belize. As a child, he lived with his grandparents and was captivated by the mystery of the skies. In 1979, Petters left Belize to live with his mother in the United States. After graduating from Canarsie High School in Brooklyn, New York, Petters enrolled at Hunter College. Family problems left Petters homeless, but he received a Minority Access to Research Careers Fellowship that allowed him...