Mickens, Ronald E.

Impact on the world

Created the major historical exhibit and archival collection documenting the African American presence in physics for the American Physical Society's 1999 centennial, work that became the foundational historical record used by the American Institute of Physics and other organizations to preserve this history.

Life & background

A physicist and mathematician at Clark Atlanta University specializing in mathematical epidemiology and nonlinear dynamics, Mickens is also a historian of science who created the major exhibit and archival collection on the history of Black physicists in America for the American Physical Society's 1999 centennial celebration. His collection and two published books on the subject have become the primary historical record drawn upon by major physics organizations seeking to document this history.

Sources

1. AIP (Initial Conditions Episode 7: The African American Presence in Physics); BlackPast.org; Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (Univ. of Buffalo)