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Willie Hobbs Moore (May 23, 1934 – March 14, 1994) was an African American physicist and engineer. She is the first African American woman to earn a PhD in physics. [1]
Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876. On the basis of his academic record he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa society. In 1874, he ...
A group of involved physicists met at Fisk University in 1972 to honor three well known African-American physicists: Dr. Donald Edwards, Dr. John McNeile Hunter, and Dr. Halson V. Eagleson. [2] On April 28, 1977, the Society was established at Morgan State University, [3] with its founding co-chairs being Walter E. Massey and James Davenport. [1]
Mickens was also a co-founder of the National Conference of Black Physics Students [14] and he was a member of the founding council of the Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute, [15] an organization founded in 1988 by Nobel laureate in physics Abdus Salam to encourage collaboration between African and American physicists, where he continues to ...
It includes physicists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American physicists" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total.
Imes was the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in physics since Edward Bouchet did so from Yale University in 1876; Imes was the first African American in the 20th century to gain this degree. [1] On May 3, 1919, after moving to New York City to work in industry, Imes married Nella Larsen, a nurse who became a writer.
Harry Lee Morrison (October 7, 1932 – January 14, 2002) [1] was an American theoretical physicist and the first African American physics faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on statistical mechanics within theoretical physics, and he was known for his demonstration in 1972 of the absence of long-range ...
Donald Anderson Edwards (5 January 1905 – 19 December 1999) was an American physicist. Edwards was the founding chair of the physics department at North Carolina A&T State University, and spent his career teaching there and at other historically Black colleges and universities across the United States.