Promotional photo of Dr. Fred Begay distributed as part of a 2004 press release on the occasion of his election to the New York Academy of Sciences. Credit: LeRoy N. Sanchez, Los Alamos National Laboratory.Fred Begay (born 1932), also known as Fred Young or Clever Fox is a Native American nuclear physicist. Begay was born in 1932 at Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation in Colorado. His mother was Navajo and Ute and his father was Navajo. Wikipedia
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His professional accomplishments are remarkable because he earned a doctorate in physics from the University of New Mexico without having attended high school. But Begay, for whom education is as much an avocation as science, is bemused by the attention. www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/99-169.shtml
"I'm pleased and proud to receive the New York Academy of Sciences award and to be included in the oldest academy in the country. The Academy is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost organizers of scientific conferences and symposia and has ev www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/04-055.shtml
Fred Begay was born in 1932. His father and mother are from the Navajo and Ute Nation . They called their son Clever Fox because he was a skillful hunter. It was his ob to feed the four younger children in the family. He shot deer and trapped rabbits www.lapahie.com/Fred_Young.cfm
The first Navajo to received a Ph.D. in physics, Fred Begay was born at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation. Both of his parents were Navajo and Ute. While still a young child his parents started teaching him Navajo medicine. His mo www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cin_bio_fred...
The first Navajo to received a Ph.D. in physics, Fred Begay was born at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation. Both of his parents were Navajo and Ute. While still a young child his parents started teaching him Navajo medicine. His mo www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pagename=swirc_bio_fr...