- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 29 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Physicist Ketevi Adikle Assamagan was born on March 12, 1963 in Port-Gentil, Gabon. After graduating from high school, Assamagan attended the University of Benin in Togo, West Africa , earning his B.S. degree in 1985. Assamagan was then awarded a United States Agency for International Development grant award to purse higher education in the United States. He went on to graduate from Ball State University in 1989 with his M.S. degree in theoretical condensed matter physics and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear and particle physics from the University of Virginia in 1995. In 1998, he took a position as a research associate at the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1998 to 2001, Assamagan worked with CERN's particle accelerator to find the Higgs Boson. In 2001, Assamagan was hired by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory where he works on the ATLAS Project.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Ketevi Assamagan
- Ketevi Assamagan
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208833
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ketevi Assamagan.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
042915
- 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 Upton, New York 2013 April 12.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Physicist.
- Added Author
Assamagan, K., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.