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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Daniel Akins.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Daniel Akins.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Akins, Daniel L.
  • Crowe, Larry F.
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 39 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Physical chemist and chemistry professor Daniel Akins was born in 1941 in Miami, Florida. Akins earned his B.S. degree in chemistry from Howard University and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida State University before becoming an assistant professor at the University of South Florida. Between 1977 and 1979, Akins served as a program director of chemical dynamics at the National Science Foundation (NSF). After a brief period as a senior scientist with the Polaroid Corporation, he began his career at The City College of New York as a professor of chemistry in 1981. In 1988, Akins founded and served as director of the CUNY Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI). His research focuses on new nanomaterials for use in molecular photonic devices. Akins received the 2000 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Daniel Akins
  • Daniel Akins
Subject
  • Akins, Daniel L. > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Chemist Chemistry Professor
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
994208822
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Daniel Akins.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
Playing Time
023911
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Teaneck, New Jersey 2012 May 15.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Chemist Chemistry Professor.
Added Author
Akins, Daniel L., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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