- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 17 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Physicist Oliver Keith Baker was born on July 18, 1959 in McGehee, Arkansas. He earned his B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, and attended Stanford University where he received his M.S. degrees in physics and mathematics in 1984 and his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1987. In 1989, after two years of post-doctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Baker accepted concurrent appointments in the physics department at Hampton University and at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. In 2006, Baker accepted a physics professorship at Yale University and became the director of the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory in 2010. He was recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to research and infrastructure in nuclear and particle physics. Baker was a researcher on the ATLAS experimental team at CERN that discovered a novel particle, which was examined as a candidate for the Higgs boson.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Oliver Baker
- Oliver Baker
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208888
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Oliver Baker.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Playing Time
031708
- 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 New Haven, Connecticut 2013 March 10.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Physicist.
- Added Author
Baker, Oliver Keith, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.