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WM Jackson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications

A Black Scientist's Retrospective of His Life in Physical Chemistry.

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE) AND Program Evaluation

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Ihave chosen to give an extensive account of my early life not because it is so unique but because, in about the same times and places in my life, there were others who were also accomplished, and I feel my story is also a part of their story. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, into a middle-class family with both parents working during the Great Depression. My Father finished college at Tuskegee Institute and was a lifetime teacher of algebra and auto mechanics at Parker High School. It was the first high school for African Americans in …

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