AFRL Physicist Earns National Recognition
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OH (AFPN) –
An Air Force Research Laboratory physicist here is one of the "50
Most Important Blacks in Research Science" for 2004 according
to Science Spectrum magazine and U.S. Black Engineer and Information
Technology magazine editors.
The editors selected Dr. Darnell Diggs of AFRL's materials and
manufacturing directorate for the annual list based on his work
in making science part of global society. Dr. Diggs conducts research
in the survivability and sensor materials division's optical materials
group.
An Alabama native, Dr. Diggs received his bachelor's, master's
and doctoral degrees, all in physics, from Alabama A&M in Normal,
Ala.
Dr. Diggs and the other honorees will be featured in the September
issue of Science Spectrum which is distributed to the top science
programs and to scientists nationwide. The magazine will make a
special focus this year on making grade-school students aware of
the honorees, publication officials said.