Edward Bouchet [[electronic resource] ] : the first African-American doctorate / / edited by Ronald E. Mickens

• Pubblicazione: New Jersey, : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.092
• Soggetto topico: Scientists - United States; Science - United States
• Altri autori: MickensRonald E. <1943-> MooreWillie Hobbs ImesElmer Samuel <1883-1941.>
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Yale ; Chapter 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: 1876-1902 ; The 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 Bouchet ; Appendix 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 ; Collections ; Appendix 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 Meeting ; III. The Constitution for the Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 achiev
• Titolo autorizzato: Edward Bouchet
• ISBN: 981-277-773-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809550303321
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