Walter E. Massey

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Walter E. Massey (left) with US President Jimmy Carter (1980)

Walter Eugene Massey (born April 5, 1938 in Hattiesburg , Mississippi ) is an American physicist and science organizer.

Life

Massey studied math and physics at Morehouse College in Atlanta , Georgia , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1958. In 1966 he received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from Washington University in St. Louis with a thesis on theoretical physics . He was then a Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory until 1968 , where he continued his work on the theory of quantum fluids , specifically on liquid 4 He and 3 He (e.g.). In 1970 he became the first African American professor of physics at Brown University , initially associate professor and from 1975 to 1979 full professor. From 1972 to 1975 he was a member of the National Science Board and from 1975 to 1977 of the National Science Foundation . From 1979 to 1984 he was director of the Argonne National Laboratory and from 1979 to 1993 Professor of Physics and Vice President for Research from 1983 to 1991 at the University of Chicago .

In late 1987, he became the first African American to be elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 1989. From 1991 to 1993 he was director of the National Science Foundation under US President George HW Bush . After holding senior positions at California State University , he served as President of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007. From 2010 until his retirement he was President of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago .

In addition to many other positions in government-sponsored research organizations and in the private sector, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of America from 1998 and Chairman of the Board from 2009 to 2010 .

In 1991 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . He is an honorary doctor of several universities in the United States. In 2019, Massey received the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

  • WE Massey: Science education in the United States: what the scientific community can do . In: Science . tape 245 , no. 4921 , 1989, pp. 915-921 , doi : 10.1126 / science.2772643 .
  • Walter E. Massey: A success story amid decades of disappointment . In: Science . tape 258 , no. 5085 , 1992, pp. 1177–1179 , doi : 10.1126 / science.258.5085.1177 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chia-Wei Woo, Hing-Tat Tan, Walter E. Massey: Theory of dilute solutions of He 3 in liquid He 4 . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 22 , no. 7 , 1969, p. 278-282 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.22.278 .
  2. ^ Norman M. Bradburn, David Rosen: Walter E. Massey: president-elect of AAAS . In: Science . tape 238 , no. 4834 , 1987, pp. 1657-1658 , doi : 10.1126 / science.3317837 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  4. ^ Member History: Walter Eugene Massey. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Massey, Walter E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massey, Walter Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and science organizer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattiesburg , Mississippi