Black Physicists
Probably the most famous American astrophysicist, period.
Who is Neil de Grassse Tyson?
We are all going to become accelerator physicists/engineers/technicians so we can help this continent get and maintain its first light source.
What is Africa?
An eerie tunnel haunted by the ghosts of physics students of yester-year connects the physics building to this building which hosts physics department colloquims.
What is Harriman Hall?
NSBP
What is National Society of Black Physicists?
This planetary system was famously downgraded from 9 to 8 planets in 2006
What is the solar system?
These group of black physicists want to see you all thrive and would love to know how to best support you.
Who is the Stony Brook NSBP executive board?
This famous equation tells us that the higher the collision energy, the larger the mass of the particles that can be produced.
What is E=mc2?
This zero credit "class" will have you burning the midnight oil weeks before your graduation.
What is Senior Writing Requirement? PHY ???
NSHP
What is National Society of Hispanic Physicists?
The closest star to us aside from the sun
What is proxima centauri?
An alumni of University of Michigan, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in physics.
Who is Willie Hobbs Moore?
Located at Brookhaven National Lab, this accelerator is being converted into the Electron Ion Collider.
What is RHIC? (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider)
The newest Nobel Laureate in physics coming to Stony Brook's physics department as faculty?
Who is Barry Barrish?
APS
What is American Physical Society?
This telescope, launched 25 December 2021, was a Christmas gift to all humanity.
What is the James Webb telescope?
Formerly an APS President and currently a professor at Brown, he wrote the book "Superspace: One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry" with our very own Rocek.
Who Sylvester James Gates Jr.?
These type of accelerators are also known as light sources.
What are synchrotrons?
Paul Lauterbur won the Nobel Prize for his work that led to creation of this medical imaging technique.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
NMC
What is the National Mentoring Community?
Katherine Johnson used this type of mechanics to create calculations which helped direct the first NASA space flight
What are orbital mechanics?
First Black person to receive a PhD in Physics ever
Who is Edward A Bouchet?
Your girl is interning at this Agency (IAEA) which supports Member States in the use of particle accelerators (among many other nuclear technologies) for sustainable development.
What is the International Atomic Energy Agency?
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 in recognition of his work in statistical mechanics and symmetry principles.
Who is C.N Yang?
TEAM-UP
What is Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy?
Black NASA engineer who was the leader of the entire James Webb Telescope program
Who is Gregory Robinson?