The HistoryMakers video oral history with Wendell Hill.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 44 min., 47 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312834
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Wendell Hill
Wendell Hill
Other authors / contributors:Hill, Wendell T., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 September 12.
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Summary:Physicist Wendell T. Hill III was born in 1952 in Berkeley, California. He earned his B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Irvine. Hill went on to study physics at Stanford University, earning his Ph.D. degree in 1980. Hill was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards & Technology from 1980 to 1982. In 1982, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland as a full professor with appointments in Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. He is also a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. He wrote numerous scientific publications in the area of Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) Physics, was a Presidential Young Investigator of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was the Program Director for the AMO Physics program at NSF from 2010 to 2012.