The HistoryMakers video oral history with Clayton W. Bates, Jr.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 45 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2004.016
Subjects

Other author/creatorBates, Clayton W., Jr., 1932- interviewee.
Other author/creatorHamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Other author/creatorLane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Clayton W. Bates, Jr.
Portion of title Clayton W. Bates, Jr.
Abstract Electrical engineer and physicist Clayton W. Bates, Jr. was born on September 5, 1932 in New York City. After receiving his high school diploma from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1950, Bates earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College in 1954. He obtained his M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1956 and Harvard University in 1960; as well as his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1966 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1966 to 1972, Bates worked for several engineering firms, where his projects included control design for the second nuclear submarine. Bates then joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he helped to organize the Society of Black Scientists. He left Stanford in 1984 to join the faculty at Howard University as associate dean for graduate education and research in the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Sciences.
CreditsVideographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Performer Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 March 5.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2004.016 HistoryMakers

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