AFRL physicist earns national recognition

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  • By Jill Bohn
  • Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) --  An Air Force Research Laboratory physicist here is one of the "50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science" for 2004 according to Science Spectrum magazine and U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine editors.

The editors selected Dr. Darnell Diggs of AFRL's materials and manufacturing directorate for the annual list based on his work in making science part of global society. Dr. Diggs conducts research in the survivability and sensor materials division's optical materials group.

An Alabama native, Dr. Diggs received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, all in physics, from Alabama A&M in Normal, Ala.

Dr. Diggs and the other honorees will be featured in the September issue of Science Spectrum which is distributed to the top science programs and to scientists nationwide. The magazine will make a special focus this year on making grade-school students aware of the honorees, publication officials said. (Courtesy of Air Force Materiel Command News Service)