ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers
ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers
ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers
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<strong>Science<strong>Makers</strong></strong><br />
Spotlight: Larry Gladney<br />
Full Name: Larry Donnie Gladney<br />
Born: August 9, 1957<br />
Place: Cleveland, MS<br />
Parents: Annie Lee Gladney<br />
Lucius Green Walker<br />
Spouse: Jacqueline Tanaka<br />
Education: East St. Louis High School - East St. Louis, IL (1975)<br />
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (B.A. Physics, 1979)<br />
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA (Ph.D. Physics, 1985)<br />
Type of Science: Particle Physics<br />
Achievements: Developed the third-level tau lepton triggers for the Collider Detector at<br />
Fermilab<br />
Made the fi rst observation of an exclusive B meson decay in the Hadron<br />
Collider environment<br />
Favorites:<br />
Color: Green<br />
Food: Fried Chicken<br />
Time of Year: Mid-Spring<br />
Biography<br />
Research physicist and professor Larry Donnie Gladney was born on August 9, 1957,<br />
in Cleveland, Mississippi, to Annie Lee Gladney and Lucius Green Walker. Raised by his mother<br />
in East St. Louis, Illinois, Gladney attended Alta Sita Elementary School and Clarke Junior High<br />
School. He graduated third in his class from East St. Louis High School in 1975. Keenly interested<br />
in the nature of matter, Gladney earned his B.A. degree in physics from Northwestern University in<br />
1979, and he went on to Stanford University to earn his M.S. degree, then his Ph.D. in physics in<br />
1985. Gladney pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1988.
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