Category: Earth & Physical Science Pioneer

Warren Buck

Physicist Warren Wesley Buck, III was born on February 16, 1946 to Warren W. Buck, Jr. and Mildred G. Buck in Washington, D.C. He was raised in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Spingarn High School in 1963. After graduating from Morgan State University in 1968 with his B.S. degree in mathematics, Buck enrolled at the College of William and...

Michael Blakely

Biological anthropologist and research director Michael L. Blakey was born on February 23, 1953 in Washington, D.C. Blakey received his B.A. degree in anthropology from Howard University in 1978. He continued his studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned his M.A. degree in 1980. Blakey travelled to England to do research on the biology of contemporary...

Clayton W. Bates, Jr.

Electrical engineer and physicist Clayton W. Bates (1932 – ) worked for several engineering and scientific companies including Varian Associates, AVCO, Sylvania Electric Products, the Ford Instrument Company, and RCA. His projects ranged from low-level light detection and x-ray image intensification to the design of the nuclear reactor controls of the first SEA WOLF, the second atomic powered submarine....

Gibor Basri

Astrophysicist and physics professor Gibor Basri (1951 – ) was one of the first astrophysicists to discover brown dwarfs, stars without sufficient mass to have a stable brightness and that cool to planetary temperatures, in 1995. In 2007, he was named the first vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at the University of California, Berkeley. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio26.html
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