The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Jackson.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Jackson.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 55 min., 43 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:
Jackson, William M., -- 1936- -- Interviews.
Jackson, William M., -- 1936-
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312885
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with William Jackson
William Jackson
Other authors / contributors:Jackson, William M., 1936- 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 San Francisco, California 2012 November 6.
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Summary:Astrophysicist and academic administrator William M. Jackson was born on September 24, 1936. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Morehouse College in 1956 and Catholic University of America in 1961, respectively. With his expertise in photochemistry, lasers chemistry, and astrochemistry, Jackson joined the University of California, Davis faculty as a chemistry professor in 1985. He became a distinguished professor in 1998, and chair of the chemistry department from 2000 to 2005. His academic honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and election as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He was one of six founders of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, NOBCChE. In 1996, the Planetary Society named asteroid 1081 EE37 as (4322) Billjackson in his honor for contributions to planetary science. Jackson published over 176 scientific papers. He also owned a United States patent.

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