Profile
Albert Baez
Physicist + Scientist
Male
Born
Nov 25, 1912
Hometown
Puebla, Puebla
Died
Mar 20, 2007
Death Place
San Mateo County,...
Field
Physics
Nationality
United States
Alma Mater
Syracuse Universi...
Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist… Read More
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Albert Baez
d.2007
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1912
Birth
Born on November 25, 1912.
TWENTIES
1933
20 Years Old
Baez earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Drew University in 1933 and then a master's degree in physics from Syracuse University in 1935.
1936
23 Years Old
In 1936, he married Chandos Bridge, the daughter of an Episcopalian minister.
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THIRTIES
1948
35 Years Old
In 1948, along with Stanford University professor Paul Kirkpatrick (1894 - 1992), Baez developed the X-ray reflection microscope for examination of living cells.
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Baez received his PhD in physics from Stanford in 1950.
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1951
38 Years Old
Baez took a yearlong leave to work with UNESCO in 1951, stationing his family in Baghdad to establish the physics department and laboratory at Baghdad University.
FORTIES
1959
46 Years Old
In 1959, Baez accepted a faculty position at MIT, and moved his family to the Boston area.
1960
47 Years Old
In 1960, working with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, he developed optics for an X-ray telescope.
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FIFTIES
1967
54 Years Old
Baez was not limited to print media, though, making almost 100 films about physics for the Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corp from 1967 to 1974.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1974
61 Years Old
In June 1974 Baez was awarded an honorary degree by the British Open University as Doctor of the University.
1988
75 Years Old
After his retirement, Baez occasionally delivered physics lectures and was president of Vivamos Mejor/USA, an organization founded in 1988 to help impoverished villages in Mexico.
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1995
82 Years Old
In 1995, the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) established the Albert V. Baez Award for Technical Excellence and Service to Humanity.
2007
94 Years Old
He died of natural causes March 20, 2007 at age 94 in the Redwood City care home where he had lived for the prior three years.
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