Hubert Mack Thaxton
African American physicist (1909–1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hubert Mack Thaxton (20 March 1909 – 3 January 1974) was an American nuclear physicist, mathematician, engineer, and the fourth African American person to earn a PhD in physics in the United States. Thaxton's research focused on proton scattering, which at the time was a largely unexplored area of study.[1][2]
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Hubert Mack Thaxton | |
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Born | (1909-03-20)20 March 1909 |
Died | 3 January 1974(1974-01-03) (aged 64) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Howard University, B.S., M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., PhD |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear physics, proton scattering |
Institutions | North Carolina A&T State University Delaware State University City College of New York |
Thesis | "Scattering of Protons by Protons" (1938) |
Doctoral advisor | Gregory Breit |
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