Did you know 2

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Did you know that Henry Sampson Jr. is the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering?

Did you know that Henry Sampson Jr. invented the Cell Phone? 


Did you know that Sampson is an African-American from Jackson, Mississippi who attended Morehouse and transferred to Purdue?


Did you know that Sampson earned a MS in Engineering from the University of California?


Did you you know that Sampson also was awarded an MS in Nuclear Engineering from Illinois and his Ph.D. from Illinois?


Did you know that Sampson is the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering?

Did you know that in 1971 Sampson was awarded a patent for the "gamma-electric cell?



Did you know that the gamma-electric cell technology was used in the cellular phone?


Did you know that Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934?





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