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I guess as scientist I belong to this
small community
where uh we always have been curious
about understanding the world uh where
we come from I remember when I was a
child with my twin brother
we used to be in the yard and just
looking at the sky and trying to figure
out what is behind the stars and asking
us our crazy questions
um there's a big issue when you're kid
each each time you go to the next grade
um your options are starting to shrink
and shrink and shrink and
shrink and um that was against my vision
of how the world is is which
is uh being able to do everything uh
because everything has a connection with
everything else that's how I see the
world you throw a ball a rock in the in
the water you have those Rings you look
at a map as far as drawing a mountain
you also have rings that got to be
something similar with each others um so
I always been driven by that so my
choice in moving forward in education
was always what track can I choose that
I'm still able to do as much as
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possible what does physicist
do um trying to understand where we come
from and um also trying to share
information um I would say that we
are very rare type of uh uh breeds I
guess where um we love to go to
conferences to meet new people and
that's something that I found very
fascinating um and very rewarding we
love to whatever we learn we want to
pass it
along medical physics the one of the
primary uh effort right now out there is
to help people dealing with cancer okay
so you're talking about first Imaging
that tumor and uh getting rid of that
tumor and the tool that is being used is
primarily is radiation um this is a
field
where people come they're sick they
knock at your door and whatever you have
you need to help them so although what
exist from the Imaging to the beam to
the all of the technology out there is
not perfect you want to help them
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so I'm currently the president of the
National Society of black physicist and
uh who promotes the well-being of uh
African-American physicist and Society
at large uh this uh minority Community
um this is an untapped uh Community
obviously there's the number of
uh africanamerican that could could get
to the job market is can be substantial
and can contribute substantially to the
the economy of this
country um so it's up to us to make uh
the right story that people realize hey
we need to pay attention and be sure
that those people are actually getting
what they're supposed to get because
otherwise we
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lose right now the historically black
college of University hbcus as we call
them are kind of an endangered P species
to some degree um most of the physics
department Across the Nation are
actually either closing or
in danger of closing uh or being merged
with others and in addition most of
those students are coming from uh middle
class or poor um uh neighborhood which
means that the
challenge in their family to bring their
kids to the best education is not
something that is Trivial okay so to
start from you have to deal with a an
environment which is not easy um but
science has to be a priority and we have
to uh to back that up you cannot just
say yes do it but you don't put the
funding you don't put the proper
environment to be sure that they going
to
succeed
number one the more you learn it's not
that the smarter you get but the more
prepared you
are number two whatever you learn
through a textbook or on TV or when you
try to go beyond that try to find out is
it true and even if it's true if there's
something else behind
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it