- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 19 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Physicist and professor Robert Henry Bragg was born on August 11, 1919. Following his service in World War II, Bragg received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949 and 1951, respectively. Shortly after, Bragg was hired by the Portland Cement Association Research Laboratory, where he became an expert in x-ray crystallography and diffraction. In 1960, Bragg finished his Ph.D. program at IIT with his degree in physics. He was then hired by Lockheed Martin Missile and Space, where he worked for nine years, before he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. While at Berkeley, Bragg served as chair of the materials science and engineering department from 1978 to 1981, and was later named professor emeritus upon his retirement in 1987. He became a fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists in 1995.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Robert Bragg
- Robert Bragg
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208826
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Bragg.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
051920
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Emeryville, California 2011 March 11.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Physics Professor Physicist.
- Added Author
Bragg, R. H. (Robert H.), interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.