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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Godfrey Gumbs
Godfrey Gumbs
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gumbs, Godfrey, 1948- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2012 May 17.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | 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.
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