Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Larry Gladney Larry Gladney
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Other authors / contributors: | Gladney, Larry, 1957- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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Sound characteristics: | digital
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 September 23. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Physicist Larry Gladney was born on August 9, 1957 in Cleveland, Mississippi. Gladney earned his B.A. degree in physics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1979. He attended Stanford University for his M.S. degree, earning his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1985. In 1988, Gladney was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as associate dean for the natural science. Gladney developed the third-level tau lepton triggers for the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Gladney was named a Presidential Young Investigator for the National Science Foundation and was awarded a Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 1990. By 1992, Gladney made the first observation of an exclusive B meson decay in the hadron collider environment. Gladney served as a member of U.S. Army Science Advisory Board from 1997 to 2002 and was a member of the Advisory and Review Committee for the Origin and Structure of Matter project of NSF.
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