- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 29 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Astrophysicist and physics professor Gibor Basri was born on May 3, 1951 in New York City. He grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado and attended Stanford University, receiving his B.S. degree in physics in 1973. He earned his Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979, then began his lengthy career at the University of California, Berkeley. Basri's research focused on star formation, stellar magnetic activity, and very low-mass stars. His work was instrumental in the discovery of brown dwarf stars in 1995 and the use of lithium dating to determine their age. He was promoted to full professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994; and to first vice chancellor for equity and inclusion in 2007. In 2001, Basri became co-investigator of NASA's Kepler mission to locate extra-solar terrestrial planets. The author of over two hundred publications, Basri became a leading name in astrophysics.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Gibor Basri
- Gibor Basri
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208752
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Gibor Basri.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
032927
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Oakland, California 2011 March 9.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Physics Professor Astrophysicist.
- Added Author
Basri, Gibor, 1951- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.