Henry T. Sampson: First African-American to Earn Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the U.S.

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Henry T. Sampson: First African-American to Earn Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the U.S.

Henry T. Sampson is the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the United States. He is best-known for inventing the 'gamma-electric cell' in 1971. Sampson was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1934. He graduated from Lanier High School in 1951. He later attended Morehouse College in Atlanta before transferring to Purdue […]

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