Oral history interview with John McNeile Hunter.

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Oral history interview with John McNeile Hunter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79752444

Includes discussion of: family and birthplace; education, including graduate studies in physics at Cornell University; position as mathematicas and physics instructor at Virginia State College; deferment from military service; membership in professional organizations and societies; necessity for separate professional organizations for blacks; rewards of teaching career; physics departments at black institutions; research work and support for research; decision to remain at Virginia State College; geographic distribution of black physicists; future plans; physics as a prerequisite to technical fields; and necessity for development of independent study programs.

2 sound tapes (77 min.).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Hunter, John McNeile., 1901-

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Physicist; chemist. Professor and head, physics department, Virginia State College, 1925-1967. From the description of Oral history interview with John McNeile Hunter. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79752444 ...

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 ...