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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Herman Brenner White, Jr.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Herman Brenner White, Jr.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • White, Herman Brenner, 1948-
  • Williams, Linda
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 16 min.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Physicist Herman Brenner White was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on September 28, 1948. He obtained his B.A. degree in physics from Earlham College in 1970. During graduate school at Michigan State University, White split his time at Michigan State's Cyclotron Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory. As an award for excellent graduate research, White became an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and was sent to study in Switzerland at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics. In 1974, he received his M.S. degree in physics and became a neutrino physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. White was a teaching fellow from 1976 to 1978 in physics at Yale University. In 1987, he taught physics again during his doctoral studies at Florida State University and received his Ph.D. in 1991. White was a staff physicist and scientist and held various positions at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory beginning in 1974.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Herman Brenner White, Jr.
  • Herman Brenner White, Jr.
Subject
  • White, Herman Brenner, 1948- > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Physicist
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
1003150448
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Herman Brenner White, Jr.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
031600
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Linda Williams, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 November 13.
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
White, Herman Brenner, 1948- interviewee.
Williams, Linda, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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