Ronald E. Mickens, 1974

Ron Mickens — Courtesy MIT Museum
*Ronald E. Mickens (right), MIT visiting professor in physics, 1974.*

Ronald E. Mickens was a Visiting Professor in the MIT Physics Department, hosted by Professor James Young. Together they founded the National Society of Black Physicists. Forty years after Mickens' visit to MIT, his son, computer scientist James Mickens of Microsoft, was hosted by the MIT Electrical and Computer Science Department as a 2014-15 MLK Visiting Scholar.

Timeline: 1970s

School: School of Science

Department: Physics

Career: Science

Object: Image

Collection: Faculty, Integration and Differentiation 1969-1994, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mentorship

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