Oral history interview with Ronald E. Mickens.

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Mickens, Ronald E., 1943-. Oral history interview with Ronald E. Mickens.

Oral history interview with Ronald E. Mickens.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80398070

Includes discussion of: tenure at Fisk University (college education and graduate studies0; influences on career (description of grandfather); description of professors as a student at Fisk University and Vanderbilt University; black physicists in the U.S., past and present; publications on black scientists in the U.S.; Percy Julian as a chemist; graduate study pursuits by blacks in science; recruitment of minority groups by the American Physical Society; aptitudes and academic achievement in science of black students (and science educators); status of secondary and higher education in the sciences among blacks; approach to teaching as a scientist; definition of physics; african physicists in the U.S.; blacks as recipients of Nobel Prizes in science; contributions by blacks to the field of physics; description of family.

1 sound tape (45 min.).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library