Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr.

Born on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida, Reverend James W. and Elizabeth Randolph gave birth to their second son, Asa Philip Randolph. James worked as a tailor and minister, while Elizabeth worked as a seamstress. Both of his parents were supporters of equality for African Americans as well as general human rights. Being black during that era meant having to live through difficult circumstances while striving to survive. Through the guidance and nurture from his parents, Asa inherited his compassion and drive towards racial inequality. In 1891, the Randolph’s moved to Jacksonville, Florida, which had a positive, and well-established African American community.

Maurice Wilkins: He is one of the awardees of the Noble Prize. And he also contributed his previous researches to Watson and Crick.

Although Higinbotham was intelligent enough to go to any school he wanted, he chose to go to Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. There, he followed the path of physics. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1932 and William continued on to become a talented physicist. His prime interest was controlling nuclear arms. After

Willie Hobbs, Moore was born in 1934, she was the very first African American woman to earn a PH.D in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1972, under the direction of Samuel Krimm. After she received her doctorate she continued research on specral proteins, while in Michigan Moore worked with Datamax Corp. Moore has also held positions in engineering in which she was responsible for theoretical

In 1965 Wilkins was promoted, first to assistant director of the John Jay Hopkins Laboratory, then to director of the Defense Science and Engineering Center, and finally to director of Computational Research. Being as busy bodied as Wilkins was, he moved to Howard University in Washington, D.C., as a professor of Applied Mathematical Physics leaving General Dynamics in 1970.

Floyd B. McKissick Sr. was a veteran of World War II and a pioneer in the integration of higher education in North Carolina. In the summer of 1951, he was admitted to the University of North Carolina, becoming one of the first African American students to attend UNC Law School. While being a key participant in the integration of UNC law school, McKissick also took on leadership positions in Civil Rights activists groups including CORE and NAACP.1 With a strong religious foundation, he established a new type of community called Soul City. Soul City’s intended plan was to open up opportunity for minorities and the poor.2 He wanted to create a better life

Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr. (January 17, 1899 – November 6, 1963) was an American economist, academic, anthropologist and a social critic of blacks in the United States(Wikipedia). He was one of many great scholars that worked at the prestigious Howard University and a great intellectual leader of the social science at the university. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1899. Harris first taste of Radical politics was at his college Virginia Union University where he published “Black Communist in Dixie”. He then went on after graduation to work for the National Urban League as a researcher, before

White grew up in Atlanta Georgia and came from a moderately well to do family. He attended Atlanta University. The summer of his senior year White experienced a great amount of racism while interning for Atlanta Standard Life Insurance. Those actions of racism inspired him to call for a chapter of the NAACP at Atlanta University. This did not occur due to lack of organization and participation. Following graduation Walter White worked at Atlanta Standard Life Insurance. He was very successful as an insurance salesman. This did not deter his will for racial civil rights. White, along with other coworkers, were successful in stopping the school board from cutting eighth grade from black schools to finance white school. An Atlanta branch of the NAACP was soon to follow. White’s life from henceforth would greatly evolve from a well-established insurance salesman to a prominent figure in the NAACP and the civil rights movement.

John Hope Franklin was an iconic figure not only in the African American community but also in American society. Born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma in an all-black community, Franklin encountered an array of ruthless racism frequently. These encounters set up the platform for him to become “one of the world’s most distinguished and influential historians” of the 20th century (Arsenault & Franklin). Franklin was also an “educator noted for his scholarly reappraisal of the American Civil War era and the importance of the black struggle in shaping modern American identity. He also helped fashion the legal brief that led to the historic Supreme Court decision outlawing public school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and was instrumental in the development of African-American Studies programs at colleges and universities” (“John Hope Franklin”).

He graduated from Williams College. He majored in physics, and he soon got recruited to work on the first atomic bomb. He was not happy when he saw the effects it had on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He used the money he made to fund a library in New York City. It was really successful, and it is still there today.

L. Herrington, who was head of the physics department in the U of S in the1940s.

At Occidental he undertook a B.A in Physics, graduating in 1962. Afterwards he proceeded to Howard University where he earned his master’s program degree in Nuclear Physics in 1963, from the same institution he earned his Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics in the year 1967. Alcorn jr. worked for the North American Rockwell Space Division as a research engineer. He showcased his impressive abilities with conducting computer analysis for launching trajectories and the orbital  mechanics for missiles. A NASA grant supported Alcorn's research on negative ion formation during the summers of 1965 and 1966. In 1967 he earned his doctorate from Howard University in atomic and molecular

Leonard Kleinrock, was born June 13, 1934 in New York City. He was born to a Jewish family where he and his family grew up in the Bronx. Kleinrock graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in the year 1951. While attending the Bronx High School of Science Leonard was able to discover his talent for mathematics and computing. After his high-school graduation Leonard went on to a university named City College of New York in1957. He attended this university for four years where he would study Electrical Engineering. After achieving his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering he decided to continue his education. Leonard enrolled into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 where he began to study computer science where he would

Charles H. Towens was born on July 28, 1915 in Greenville, South Carolina. He first got his Master of Arts degree in physics at the Duke University in 1937. Later on he then went to the California Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in 1939. In World War II he worked on radar bombing systems at Bell Labs. In 1950 he was appointed a professor at Columbia

Segrè served on the University's powerful Budget Committee from 1961 to 1965 and was chairman of the Physics Department from 1965 to 1966. He supported Teller's successful bid to separate the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in 1970. He later published a biography of Fermi, Enrico Fermi: Physicist in 1970. He published his own lecture notes as From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries in 1980. Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries in 1984. He edited the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science from 1958 to 1977. A Mind Always in Motion in