1938-
Physicist;
President of Morehouse College;
Chairman of the National Science Foundation

Scientific Community.

Walter Massey, who had majored in physics at Morehouse College, returned as president to his alma mater, a prestigious, historically black college for young men in Atlanta, Georgia, after a long, distinguished career teaching and promoting science around the country in universities and scientific organizations. Beginning his physics work at the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago, Massey chose education over pure research as a way to become involved with the social issues of the 1960s. His assistant professorship at the University of Illinois led to work at Brown University, and eventually a return to the University of Chicago and Argonne. At that time, he was actively involved with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, becoming the president of its board of directors in 1988 and chairman from...