| Other author/creator | Johnson, Anthony M., 1954- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Anthony Johnson |
| Portion of title |
Anthony Johnson |
| Abstract |
Physicist Anthony M. Johnson was born on May 23, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. Johnson attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York, graduating in 1975 with his B.S. degree in physics. He went on to earn his Ph.D. degree in physics from the City College of New York in 1981. Upon graduation, Johnson was hired at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey as a member of the technical staff in the Quantum Physics and Electronics Research Department. In 2003, he was named director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR). He was also appointed as a professor of physics, computer science, and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). Johnson was a 1992 Charter Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). In 2002, he became the first African American elected as president of the Optical Society of America. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2013 July 25. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2013.167 HistoryMakers |
