Oral history interview with Warren E. Henry.

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Oral history interview with Warren E. Henry.

Includes discussion of: family and birthplace; education and employment including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company; influences on career choices (introduction as a youth to George Washington Carver by father); description of experiences as an educator; researech activities in thermodynamics, solid state physics, low temperature physics, energy conversion, magnetism, oceanographic instrumentation, etc; description of published articles; society's responsibility for scientists; necesssity to encourage minorities to pursue physics; the contribution of physics to mankind.

2 sound tapes (90 min.).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8250098

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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 ...

Henry, Warren E., 1909-

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Physicist and chemist (physical chemistry). Instructor, chemistry, physics, and radio, Tuskagee Institute, 1941-1943; staff member, Radiation Laboratory, MIT, 1943-1946; research associate, Institute for the Study of Metals, Chicago, 1946-1947; acting head, dept. of physics, Morehouse College and Clark College, 1947-1948; physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 1948-. From the description of Oral history interview with Warren E. Henry. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 807...