Other author/creator | Delfyett, Peter J., 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 Peter Delfyett |
Portion of title |
Peter Delfyett |
Abstract |
Research scientist Peter J. Delfyett was born on March 8, 1959, in Queens, New York. He received his B.E. (E.E.) degree from the City College of New York in 1981, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1983. Delfyett then returned to the City University of New York and graduated from there with his M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in 1987 and 1988, respectively. In 1989, Delfyett joined Bell Communication Research as a member of the technical staff that focused on generating ultrafast, high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers. Delfyett was later appointed as a professor in the School of Optics and as director of the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida. Delfyett was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE Photonics Society. |
Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Orlando, Florida 2013 June 4. |
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 | A2013.126 HistoryMakers |