Harris at Work
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Harris’s Berkeley Lab obituary read: ”Tammy Campbell of the Technical and Electronic Information Department, one of Harris' neighbors and a good friend, recalls Harris having his own trading card from a campaign created by Educational Science Books. The company took the idea of baseball cards and instead made trading cards for scientists, an item that proved to be a great icebreaker for Harris with the children he visited.”
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James Andrew Harris
James Andrew Harris shook the science world in 1969 for two reasons. First, he co-discovered elements 104 and 105 on the periodic table, a massive accomplishment. Second, he was the first African American in history to discover an element. James…