Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Ronald Mickens
Ronald Mickens
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mickens, Ronald E., 1943- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, 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, Scott Stearns.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2006 December 11.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Physicist and professor Ronald Mickens was born on February 7, 1943 in Petersburg, Virginia. He attended Peabody High School and graduated from Fisk University in 1964 with his B.A. degree in physics. Mickens earned his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Vanderbilt University in 1968. He won Woodrow Wilson and Dansworth Fellowships as well as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to study elementary particle physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970, Mickens accepted a teaching position in the physics department at Fisk University where, in 1977, he began his study of nonlinear, ordinary differential equations. In 1982, he became a professor at Clark Atlanta University and was named a Callaway professor of physics in 1985. Mickens contributed to over 120 research papers and produced a number of books including Mathematics and Science and Difference Equations. He also wrote The African American Presence in Physics.
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