Oral history interview with Halson Vashon Eagleson.

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Oral history interview with Halson Vashon Eagleson.

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Includes discussion of: birthplace and family; education, including post graduate studies at University of Chicago; membership in professional organizations (biographical listings and awards); history of employment at Morehouse College, Clark College, and Howard University; consultant in court cases as a physicist; influences on career decisions and teaching as a rewarding career; description of outstanding students; need for more blacks in physics and related fields; description of project with Environmental Protection Agency, Wash. D.C.; difficulties encountered by black students in physics; personal research (lack of funds); reaction of the white scientific community to blacks in the sciences; professional organizations for blacks in sciences; overview and geographic distribution of black scientists; and physics programs in black institutions.

2 sound tapes (76 min.).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Eagleson, Halson Vashon, 1903-

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Physicist (experimental). Professor of mathematics and physics, Morehouse College, 1927-1935, head, dept. of physics, 1935-1947; professor of physics, Howard University, 1947-, chairman, dept. of phsics and astronomy, 1961-1971; University of Maryland visiting professor, 1967-1973. From the description of Oral history interview with Halson Vashon Eagleson. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78280448 ...

Mickens, Ronald E., 1943-....

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Physicist (theoretical). Assistant to professor, physics department, Fisk University, 1970-1981; chairperson and professor, Atlanta University. From the description of Oral history interview with Ronald E. Mickens. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80398070 ...