- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 47 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Physicist Darnell Diggs was born on May 20, 1970, in Tuskegee, Alabama. He attended Pike County Elementary School and Pike County High School before enrolling at Alabama A&M University. Diggs earned his B.S. degree in physics in 1988. He remained at Alabama A&M to earn his M.S. degree in physics in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in physics in 2001. In 2002, Diggs was hired as a research physicist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. There, he has worked to improve polymer-based electro-optic modulators that provide critical advantages over devices made from other materials. Diggs's achievements in the field of physics have earned him the Black Engineer of the Year Award, and the Top Minority in Science Award from Science Spectrum Magazine. He was recognized as one of five Distinguished African American physicists in the World Year of Physics in 2005. Diggs served as president of the Dayton Alumni Extension for the National Society of Black Engineers.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Darnell Eugene Diggs
- Darnell Eugene Diggs
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150594
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Darnell Eugene Diggs.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
014740
- 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, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Dayton, Ohio 2008 February 25.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Physicist.
- Added Author
Diggs, Darnell Eugene, 1970- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.