Voices of the Manhattan Project: Ronald E. Mickens' Interview

Ronald E. Mickens is a physicist who currently teaches at Clark Atlanta University.

He is a prominent voice in the African-American scientific community, and has written several works documenting the feats of previous black physicists. He was friendly with several African-American scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, including J. Ernest Wilkins, and describes their careers and the racism they faced. Mickens also discusses his own career, the importance of curiosity to scientific research, and the challenges African-American scientists have had to overcome to pursue their research.


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Inventions & Scientists, Nuclear Science, Physics
Black & African American
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