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Dr. Walter McAfee June 2012 Unheard Voices Pioneer

Unheard Voices June 2012 pioneer is Dr. Walter Samuel McAfee a physicist of the African Diaspora. Dr. Walter S. McAfee was born on Sept. 2, 1914, in Ore City, Texas. He attended public schools in Marshall, Texas, where he graduated high school with honors. He enrolled in Wiley College in Texas where, in 1934, he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. In 1937 he earned a Master of Science in Physics from Ohio State University and a PhD. in physics from Cornell University in 1949. His main area of study was meson production in nuclear collisions and later Radio Astronomy.

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