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Edward Bouchet : the First African-American Doctorate.
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 univ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.