05049nam 2200673Ia 450 991080955030332120200520144314.0981-277-773-3(CKB)1000000000413136(EBL)1681449(OCoLC)879025303(SSID)ssj0000144378(PQKBManifestationID)11157650(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144378(PQKBWorkID)10145418(PQKB)10204133(MiAaPQ)EBC1681449(WSP)00004925(Au-PeEL)EBL1681449(CaPaEBR)ebr10201196(CaONFJC)MIL505414(EXLCZ)99100000000041313620020319d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEdward Bouchet the first African-American doctorate /edited by Ronald E. Mickens1st ed.New Jersey World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.c20021 online resource (156 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-02-4909-8 Includes bibliographical references.Contents ; Preface ; Chapter 1 Early African American Presence in New Haven and Yale University ; The Educated American Black ; The New Haven-Yale Complex: Black People, Church and Events; Pioneering Americans at Yale ; Before Creed and Before Bouchet ; Bouchet and YaleChapter 2 Edward A. Bouchet - The Years at Hopkins Grammar School: 1868-1870 Bibliographical Note ; Bibliography ; Endnotes ; Chapter 3 Edward Alexander Bouchet - The Master Teacher and Educator ; Introduction ; Family and Educational Background ; The Philadelphia Years: 1876-1902The Troubled Years: 1902-1918 The Promise Denied ; What Might Have Been ; Epilogue ; Photographs ; Chapter 4 In Search of Edward Bouchet ; Chapter 5 African Americans Enter Science ; Appendix A Letter From a Former Student of BouchetAppendix B Willie Hobbs Moore - First African American Woman Doctorate in Physics Selected Research Publications ; Appendix C Elmer Samuel Imes - Scientist, Inventor, Teacher, Scholar; New Field of Scholarship Opened ; An Engineer and Intellect in New York ; The Return to Fisk University ; References ; CollectionsAppendix D The Genesis of the National Society of Black Physicists References ; Appendix E The Bouchet Institute ; I. First Edward Bouchet International Conference on Physics and Technology ; II. First Bouchet Council MeetingIII. The Constitution for the Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute Edward A Bouchet was the first African-American to receive the doctorate in any field of knowledge in the United States and that area was physics. He was granted the degree in 1876 from Yale University making him at that time one of the few persons to hold the physics doctorate from an American university. Bouchet played a significant role in the education of African-Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century through his teaching and mentoring activities at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one among a small number of African-Americans who achievFirst African American doctorateScientistsUnited StatesBiographyScienceUnited StatesBiographyScientistsScience530.092Mickens Ronald E.1943-497093Moore Willie Hobbs1704084Imes Elmer Samuel1883-1941.1704085National Society of Black Scientists.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809550303321Edward Bouchet4089807UNINA