Henry T Sampson

Henry T. Thomas Sampson, Jr. was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1934 and is an African American inventor. Henry graduated from Lanier High School Jackson, Mississippi in1951.He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta before transferring to Purdue University in Indiana. There he became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Henry T Sampson then horn a Bachelor’s degree in science from Purdue University in 1956. Henry T Sampson also graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1961 with a MS degree in engineering. Henry then received an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1965, and his PhD in 1967. He is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in the United States.

Sampson s in the United States Navy as between the years 1962 and 1964 as a research chemical engineer for the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake California, in the area of high energy solid propellants and case bonding materials for solid rocket motors.