Physicists of the African Diaspora, Black Physicists Physicists of the African Diaspora - Black Physicists All most the African Physicists in the Diaspora ... Who are the Black Physicists? "Performance on the athletic field is easy to assess. A basketball goes in a hoop or it doesn't. In areas where performance is not based on the subjective interpretation of observers, African-Americans excel." --Sylvester Gates, University of Maryland Toll Professor of physics, in a Chemical and Engineering News feature story (July 21, 1998) about the challenges of fairly assessing academic talent in a not-yet-colorblind world.