The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ralph Gardner-Chavis.

Chemist and professor Ralph Gardner-Chavis was born on December 3, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943. Gardner-Chavis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Cleveland's Western Reserve Univer...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Gardner-Chavis, Ralph, 1922-2018 (Interviewee)
Williams, Regennia N. (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Gardner-Chavis, Ralph, > 1922-2018 > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Chemistry Professor > Chemist.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 8 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Ralph Gardner-Chavis
Ralph Gardner-Chavis
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
Chemist and professor Ralph Gardner-Chavis was born on December 3, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943. Gardner-Chavis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Cleveland's Western Reserve University. From 1943 to 1947, Gardner-Chavis was employed as a research assistant on the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the United States developing the atomic bomb to end World War II in 1945. After the war, Gardner-Chavis worked as a research chemist and project leader at Standard Oil of Ohio from 1949 to 1968. Gardner-Chavis became a full-time faculty member in Cleveland State University's chemistry department in 1968, where he remained until 1985. He later combined part-time teaching with work in the research lab of the Molecular Technology Corporation. Gardner-Chavis became a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1942, and AIChE in 2001.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:03:08:27
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2004 March 19.
Source of Description:
Vendor-supplied metadata.