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Eagleson, Halston V.
Oral history interview with Halson Vashon Eagleson.
Includes discussion of: birthplace and family; education, including post graduate studies at University of Chicago; membership in professional organizations (biographical listings and awards); history of employment at Morehouse College, Clark College, and Howard University; consultant in court cases as a physicist; influences on career decisions and teaching as a rewarding career; description of outstanding students; need for more blacks in physics and related fields; description of project with Environmental Protection Agency, Wash. D.C.; difficulties encountered by black students in physics; personal research (lack of funds); reaction of the white scientific community to blacks in the sciences; professional organizations for blacks in sciences; overview and geographic distribution of black scientists; and physics programs in black institutions.
Physicist (experimental). Professor of mathematics and physics, Morehouse College, 1927-1935, head, dept. of physics, 1935-1947; professor of physics, Howard University, 1947-, chairman, dept. of phsics and astronomy, 1961-1971; University of Maryland visiting professor, 1967-1973.
African American physicists
Minorities in science.
Oral histories. aat aat
Mickens, Ronald E., 1943- interviewer.
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Fisk University. Library & Special Collections. Nashville, TN 37208, USA.
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