Reva williams biography

born:

place: Memphis, TN; reared in Chicago from age of 6

pre-doctoral education: A.A. (Liberal Arts), Malcolm X Jr. College, Chicago, Illinois, 1977. B.A. (Astronomy and Physics), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1980.

Reva williams biography wikipedia

M.A. (Astrophysics), Indiana University, Bloomington, 1990.

doctoral education: Ph.D. (Astrophysics), Indiana University, 1991.

Research Areas: relativistic astrophysics, general relativity, cosmology, and extragalactic astronomy.

current employment: Bennett College and the University of Florida.

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email: revak@ufl.edu

Dr.

Reva Kay Williams is the first person to successfully work out the Penrose Mechanism to extract energy from a black hole. She is the first Black American female Ph.D in Astrophysics.

A Word from a Black Female Relativistic Astrophysicist: Setting the Record Straight on Black Holes

Williams, R.

K.,`Extracting X-Rays, Gamma-Rays, and Relativistic Electron-Positron Pairs from Supermassive Kerr Black Holes Using