Oral history interview with Arthur Thorpe.

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Thorpe, Arthur. Oral history interview with Arthur Thorpe.

Oral history interview with Arthur Thorpe.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82528626

Includes discussion of: family, birthplace, and education. Military service in the U.S. Air Force, 1955-1958; membership in professional organizations; history of employment; involvement in civic organizations; decision to pursue the field of physics; overview of teaching career; necessity for more blacks in the field of physics; difficulties of black students in physics; description of outstanding students (courses taught by interviewee at Howard University); financial resources for research and response of white physicists to research of black physicists; future for black scientific research organizations; lack of participation in the American Physical Society; assistance received for research at Howard University and support by black institutions of scientific research; solid state physics as general areas of research; acquirement of moon rock samples; physics departments at black institutions and geographic distribution of black physicists; merger of black state institutions with white institutions; federal support of Howard University; outstanding black contributors to the field of physics.

1 sound tapes (44 min.).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library