Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Warren Buck Warren Buck
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Other authors / contributors: | Buck, Warren W., 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 Washington, District of Columbia 2013 March 29. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Physicist Warren Wesley Buck, III was born on February 16, 1946 in Washington, D.C. He received his B. S. degree in mathematics from Morgan State University in 1968; his M.S. degree in experimental and theoretical plasma physics and his Ph.D. degree in theoretical relativistic nuclear physics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia 1970 and 1976, respectively. Buck's research focused on nuclear and subatomic particles, including the nature of mesons and the quark model. He joined the Hampton University faculty in Virginia in 1984; and was the founding director of the Nuclear/High Energy Physics Research Center of Excellence at Hampton. He was also a member of a team that established the scientific program at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was chancellor and dean of the University of Washington, Bothell, Washington.
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