Description

In this oral history interview, Kenneth Alston discusses his educational experiences at West End Elementary and Emmett Scott High School (York County, South Carolina), Friendship Junior College (Rock Hill, South Carolina), St. Augustine's College (Raleigh, North Carolina), and Howard University, from which he earned his doctorate in chemistry. Alston describes his time spent with the National Institute of Health where he worked under two Nobel Prize winning chemists, Christian B. Anfinsen and Max Ferdinand Perutz, and his teaching career at Allen University, Benedict College, and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Kenneth Alston, an educator and research chemist, was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1951, and has four siblings. Tom Crosby interviewed Dr. Kenneth Alston at his office on the campus of Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina, on May 15, 2009. Interview covers Alston's education at West End Elementary School (of Rock Hill, S.C.) from 1958 to 1964 and at Emmett Scott High School (of Rock Hill, S.C.) from 1965 to 1969.

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University of South Carolina. Department of Oral History, University Libraries

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South Carolina Digital Library