Walter E. Massey
Biography
Born on April 5, 1938 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Walter E. Massey displayed a gift for mathematics as a child, and by the middle of high school his academic achievements had earned him a Ford Foundation fellowship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he began studying theoretical physic. Massey graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958.
Massey was Brown University’s first African American professor of physics. In 2009, he headed Bank of America, as its Chairman of the Board.
