The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Walter Massey is a distinguished physicist and educator who has held significant leadership roles, including the presidency of Morehouse College. This interview highlights his visionary approach to integrating science and social responsibility, as well as his commitment to advancing education and equity in the community.
“Well, I was born and had his great Mississippi in 1938, so I really grew up in the 40s and 50s when it was probably the height or the depth. I'm not sure which of this total segregation. Jim Crow, apartheid, like almost.”
“I was doing theoretical physics, the work for Nasdaq's advisor, Eugene Fieenberg, who became another mentor like Chris in my life. And he had a group of students studying with it. And we were trying to understand the properties of liquid helium. Helium, when it's cooled down to close to absolute zero, becomes what's called a superfluid.”
“Well, when I you have to remember, I finished college in 1958, then I taught at Morehouse a year, which is... But then I went to Washington for graduate school. We had other black in my graduate school class, but there were no blacks in it. I'd like to do things I was not a very outgoing person really.”
“Something is uninformed and no experience about brought issues or directions and they learn so much there that they're exposed to so many things in the liberal arts and they learn about themselves. How do you know you are not interested in history? How do you know you don't want to be a philosopher? How do you know what philosophy is?”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 558 — Walter Massey
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