Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Anthony Johnson
Anthony Johnson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Johnson, Anthony M., 1954- 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 Baltimore, Maryland 2013 July 25.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Physicist Anthony M. Johnson was born on May 23, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. Johnson attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York, graduating in 1975 with his B.S. degree in physics. He went on to earn his Ph.D. degree in physics from the City College of New York in 1981. Upon graduation, Johnson was hired at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey as a member of the technical staff in the Quantum Physics and Electronics Research Department. In 2003, he was named director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR). He was also appointed as a professor of physics, computer science, and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). Johnson was a 1992 Charter Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). In 2002, he became the first African American elected as president of the Optical Society of America.
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