Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Philip Phillips.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Phillips, Philip (Philip W.)
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 46 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Physicist Philip W. Phillips was born in Scarborough, Tobago. He received his B.S. degree from Walla Walla College in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington in 1982. Upon graduation, Phillips was awarded a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley from 1981 to 1984. In 1998, he was appointed as a Beckman Associate in the Center for Advanced Study. After being promoted to full professor and receiving tenure in 2004, Phillips went on to serve as the University Scholar and was named the Bliss Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Phillips served as the American Physical Society (APS) general councilor from 2000 to 2002. He was honored as the Edward A. Bouchet Lecturer of the APS in 2000. Phillips was elected as a Fellow of the APS in 2002 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Philip Phillips
• Philip Phillips

Subject

• Phillips, Philip > Interviews
• Phillips, Philip
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Physicist

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

998759481

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Philip Phillips.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

024657

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 Champaign, Illinois 2013 June 7.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Physicist.

Added Author

Phillips, Philip (Philip W.), interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.