The HistoryMakers video oral history with Godfrey Gumbs.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 44 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.106
Subjects

Other author/creatorGumbs, Godfrey, 1948- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Godfrey Gumbs
Portion of title Godfrey Gumbs
Abstract Physicist and professor Godfrey Gumbs was born in 1948 in Georgetown, Guyana. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he earned his B.A. degree in applied mathematics. Gumbs earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Toronto in 1973 and 1978, respectively. Gumbs served as a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada before becoming a Canada University research fellow in 1982. As a fellow, he was both an assistant and associate professor of physics at Dalhousie University and the University of Lethbridge. In 1992, he was hired by Hunter College, City University of New York and appointed the Chianta-Stoll Chair of Physics and Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Physics. Gumbs was a fellow of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom and the American Physical Society from whom he received the Edward A. Bouchet Award in 2005.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2012 May 17.
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 numberA2012.106 HistoryMakers