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Dr. Sylvestor James Gates: Professor of Physics Sylvestor James Gates received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1977 for studies of elementary particle physics and quantum field theory. He continued his research as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and ended at the California Institute of Technology. His first faculty appointment was at MIT. He then joined the Physics Department at University of Maryland at College Park, where he is now the first John S. Toll Professor of Physics. He is the first African-American to hold an endowed chair in physics at a major research university in the U.S.   Click here to read more.

James Andrew Harris -- Nuclear Chemist James Andrew Harris received a B.S. in Chemistry (1953). He received a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Hayward, CA, in 1975. He was appointed Head of the Engineering and Technical Services Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1977, where he is still active in nuclear chemistry research. In the course of several years Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory produced a number of new elements by bombarding atomic targets in an accelerator.   Click here to read more.

Dr. Kenneth Olden: Cell biologist and Biochemist Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., was named as the third director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the second director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) on June 18, 1991, by Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is the first African-American to become director of one of the 18 institutes of the National Institutes of Health during the history of the agency. Dr. Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training, and has been active in research into the properties of cell surface molecules and their possible roles in cancer for more than two decades.   Click here to read more.

James West: Inventor and Scientist James West, a Bell Labs acoustical scientist, was recently named president-elect of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) during the organization's 133rd Meeting in State College, Pa. Almost 90 percent of all microphones built today are based on the principles first published by this duo in the early 1960s. It is the most commonly used microphone in the world. West holds 40 U.S. patents and more than 100 outside the U.S. on various microphones and techniques for permanently charging polymers.   Click here to read more.

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