Oral history interview with Donald Anderson Edwards.

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Oral history interview with Donald Anderson Edwards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82166662

Includes discussion of: family and early education; graduate studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh; financial assistance as a student; responses of students and staff when a teaching assistant at University of Pittsburgh; membership in professional organizations; history of teaching career and teaching as a rewarding career (outstanding students past and present); influential persons on career choice; difficulties of recruiting blacks into scientific fields; attitudes of black students towards mathematics and the sciences; science majors with deficiencies and the 4 year college program; black vis-a-vis white institutions for black students; attempts to merger North Carolina Agricultural and technical college with state institutions; difficulties of doing personal research at a black institution; overview of physics departments at black institutions; geographic distribution of black physicists; research at white institutions; activities in professional institutions including Beta Kappa Chi; reaction of white professional community to personal research work; outstanding black physicists and scientists; attitudes of students toward academics; and future plans and present research work.

2 sound tapes (84 min.).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Edwards, Donald Anderson, 1905-

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Physicist. Instructor, physics and mathematics, Louisville Municipal College, 1936-1942; physics department, Virginia State College, 1943-1945; head, dept. of physics, Lincoln University, 1952-1953; head, department of physics, The Agricultural College of North Carolina, 1954-. From the description of Oral history interview with Donald Anderson Edwards. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82166662 ...

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 ...