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Friday, February 17, 2012

Diaspora, 17 February 2012

Darnell Diggs, PhD
Darnell Diggs and his twin sister are the youngest of 15 children who grew up in the small Alabama town of Brundidge to parents who did not finish high school. Their parents did value education. "Our parents inspired us to work hard at school, and if you didn't, you got disciplined. That was encouragement enough," Diggs recalls.

Thirty-four-year-old Darnell is now Dr. Diggs, a physicist working at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Most of his siblings have at least undergraduate degrees in areas as diverse as chemistry, math, physics, business, and education.

Diggs was a 2004 Black Engineer of the Year Award winner in the "Promising Scientist in Government" category. He was also named one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science in 2004 by Science Spectrum magazine.

An Alabama native, Dr. Diggs received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, all in physics, from Alabama A and M in Normal, Ala.

MySciNet
From Poverty to Ph.D. - A Scientist Finds Himself in Physics: Dr. Darnell Diggs

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